Faces Behind the Figures.

The article focuses on recent developments related to business enterprises in the U.S. Last fall National Education Corp. (NEC) put it about that it would like to acquire DeVry Inc., its arch rival in the vocational school business. After all, NEC may have the largest, number of students, but DeVry is bigger in vocational school revenues. Oil wells have a distressing habit of running dry, says Gordon Brunton, 62, president of Toronto-based International Thomson Organization Ltd. That's why Thomson chooses to pour its North Sea oil profits into publishing, its original business, instead of oil, the business that made it rich.