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...morality police. Wal-Mart's business is not to offend its customers, most of whom are, for reasons that may have to do with our nation's obesity, more comfortable with hunting rifles than nudity. Its job is to make families feel comfortable enough to shop and enjoy those 12?? hotdogs together. Because that is where the real profit is, people. Trust me, I've tried them...
...developing nations a living wage. Coffee is the world's second largest traded commodity, after oil. But many coffee farmers live in abject poverty. Simply to meet production costs, they need to be paid 80¢ per lb., but the market rate is about 50¢. That translates into less than 12?? an hour for the workers who pick and process the beans. Companies that are fair-trade certified buy coffee directly from farmers at set prices that allow them to pay their workers a living wage. And the java matches the taste of other premium beans...
...doesn't stand in the wings with holy water like the wives of some Italian tenors." But Pavarotti manages only a handful of flying visits home to Modena. He misses family life. He is perplexed by his remoteness from his fast growing daughters?Lorenza, 17, Christina, 15, and Giuliana, 12???and he tends to worry about them and to compensate with strictness when he is there...
...announcing last week that the country, thanks to the war costs and the continuing economic sanctions, faced a whopping deficit of $425 million in the next fiscal year. As a result, Rhodesia's 80,000 taxpayers?almost all of them whites?will be required to contribute an extra 12??% of their incomes to the government in the form of war loans that are theoretically repayable in three years?well after the date of independence...
HOSPITAL COSTS. Nearly 12?? of every federal tax dollar is now spent on health care, and 9¢ of that amount goes to hospitals, the fastest rising expense in the ever expanding Medicare and Medicaid programs. So many beneficiaries are checking into hospitals that the program's costs have skyrocketed, from $16.5 billion in 1974 to $31.3 billion in 1977. Nor have hospitals been reluctant to cash in on a program that asks few questions no matter how high the bills. The price of an average hospital stay has jumped from $350 in 1965 to $1,300 today...