“Good God, Harry! This tree seems to be made of tightly rolled paper!”

TRENDS

 

TRENDS

o Xerox Corp. now has
patents for an aerosol
spray that renders
printed information in-
visible to copying ma-
chines, thus preventing
pirating and stealing
of secret documents.
The trick is a dye which
fluoresces under the
bright flash of a copy-
ing machine, resulting
in blank paper.

o Inflation in Canada

in March was exactly 1%.
This is a compounded
annual rate of 13.8%
which makes dubious the
Steady predictions from
government economists
that inflation will not
exceed 8% in 1974. Well,
that's better than the
65% rate in South Vietnam.

i i t cost
“Pll tell you what I see in the dancing flames. I see logs that cos

” o There are not nearly
’
ninety-five dollars a cord, that’s what I see.

enough women executives
and managers in business.
Strong federal legislation
is expected in 1974 to set
examples for provincial
80vernments and industry.

Costs and shortage of heating
fuels have produced extraord-
inary demand for chimmey clean-
ing services. People are open-

ing up fireplaces they haven't
used in 25 years in order to
ensure at least one warm room.

 

A survey of 3,228 bank
directors discloses a
median age of 59, 17%
over 70 and 7% over 75,
and concludes that "dir-
ecting a bank appears to,
contribute to longevity.
Wow!

o A survey of long-
distance moves shows
21,777 Canadian house-
holds relocated in
another Canadian city
in 1973, up (24.52)
from 17,493 in 1972.

o Business failures are
way down in Canada;
March 1974 failures
were only 58% of
March 1973.

o Zero-sum-game theory
provides the following im
provement on the policy of
quid pro quo ( tit for tat).
Give your adversary all the
little tats and keep the
big tits for yourself.

o Finagles' Principle,
("reconcile desired re-
sults with actual results")
has raised social science
to its present eminence.

A more powerful combination
is to follow an application
of Finagles' Principle with
Dobbins Law ("use a bigger
hammer").

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About 40% of all graduates
with bachelor's and pro-
fessional degrees are
women, but promotions do
not reflect these propor-—
tions.

o A report on Ontario's
economic and cultural
nationalism prepared by
Kates, Peat, Marwick & Co
states: "two-thirds of
manufacturing firms with
$25-million or more in
assets are foreign owned
(measured in terms of
assets)- and foreign owner-
ship of firm assets in this
category appears to be
growing about twice as fast
as Canadian owmership."

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