BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1997: The pace of growth for the nation's top black-owned businesses slowed considerably from a year ago because of a backlash against affirmative action and economic troubles, Black Enterprise magazine reported. Sales of the black-owned companies ranked as the nation's largest by the magazine rose 7.75 percent last year -- a fifth straight year of growth, but an expansion rate well below the 11.8 percent growth rate tallied the previous year ....(Washington Post, page D2). Women are more than twice as likely as men to find a job by scouring newspaper classified ads, according to a survey of 400 job-changers by Cleveland-based outplacement firm Enter-Change. But men are more likely than women to find work by networking (Wall Street Journal, "Work Week", page A1). DUE OUT TOMORROW: Producer Price Indexes -- April 1997
