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...wrong in American life. Reagan explains this aspect of his ideological roots with a personal anecdote. While serving as an Army base adjutant in California, he noticed that the civilian employees sent in by Washington were far less efficient than the military personnel. They had a much higher ratio of administrators to workers. Trivial, perhaps, but Reagan has brought up that experience in two conversations, nine months apart, to explain the beginnings of his belief that the federal bureaucracy is overblown...
...Genentech itself states in its prospectus, the stock involves a high degree of risk. It is also likely to have a very high price-to-earnings ratio. The offering price is expected to be $25 to $30 per share, even though Genentech earned a meager 1? per share during the first half of 1980 for its private backers. The reason for all the excitement among analysts is that Genentech is one of four leading companies in the world doing recombinant-DNA research, a phenomenon that has had the scientific and investment communities elated for several years. Genentech is the first...
...about their lives; and "people," given a sympathetic listener, speak sense, not solemn pontifications about "the city on the hill." The author's selection of these people is inspired. Terkel didn't look for the "correct" ethnic or social mix--this is no Miller Beer commercial with the required ratio of three whites to every Black. He wants a cross-section of opinions, not faces...
...mostly Protestant Ulster police, or those suspected of affiliation with them, have become more prominent targets for the I.R.A. than the British troops. Since 1969, when the current wave of troubles began, 334 British soldiers have been killed, vs. 243 members of local police or militia. But lately the ratio has been changing: of 61 people to die violently so far this year, only seven were British army regulars, while 15 were locally recruited police or members of the Ulster Defense Regiment U.D.R.). One reason: the growing policy of "Ulsterization" of peace-keeping chores in Northern Ireland that is replacing...
...clear, the Dow Jones industrial average hit a 44-month high of 974.57. It was mostly downhill after that. By Friday, the Dow Jones had lost 34.47 points and closed the week at 940.10. Declining issues led advancing stocks by a wide margin. Insiders watch the advance-decline ratio closely because it often signals future market trends. Especially hard hit were airlines, whose profits are particularly sensitive to high fuel prices. Brokers said that the Federal Reserve's higher interest rate was as much a cause of the market drop as war fears. "A lot of people here were...