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...issue is the employers' effort to reduce workers' wages, which average between $10 and $12, by $1 an hour and to cut health-care and pension contributions. Growers say they must lower costs to compete with foreign wineries. Labor leaders, arguing that the employers are trying to bust the union, contend that the producers' sales are flourishing. Indeed, shipments of California wine, which totaled some $5.5 billion in 1985, were up an estimated 11% for the first six months of 1986 over the same period last year. The main reason: growing wine-cooler sales...
...regular feature on the nightly news and the front pages. CRACK USERS' BABIES CROWDING HOSPITAL NURSERIES, blares a headline in the normally staid New York Times. The networks air two prime-time specials in a week: CBS Anchorman Dan Rather can be seen tagging along on the police bust of a crack house in New York City; NBC's Tom Brokaw earnestly questions addicts about the evils of dope. The war on drugs, like the war in Viet Nam, has been brought home to the nation's living rooms...
...people are getting strung out right and left from all social classes, and the governments don't know what to do." Drug dealers are so high-handed in Colombia that last week they gunned down Carlos Luna, the security chief of Avianca Airlines, because he had the temerity to bust a 440-lb. shipment of coke hidden in the tires of a 747 jetliner bound for Miami. U.S. officials are concerned that drugs may provoke enough social unrest to lead to civil war and revolution. In Mexico official corruption tied to drug dealing threatens to destabilize America's southern neighbor...
Amid the hubbub, some British financiers fret that Big Bang will eventually become a big bust for purely local firms. British investment houses, they note, are badly undercapitalized compared with their American and Japanese rivals. Britain's largest merchant bank, Morgan Grenfell, has a market capitalization of only $988 million, in contrast to Nomura's ($34 billion) or Salomon Brothers' ($6.6 billion). The worry is that unbridled competition will force many more old-line British houses to merge or go out of business. Says Ian Kerr, a British executive with Kidder, Peabody International: "The City of London has handed itself...
...about two dozen pills, drug paraphernalia, $1,900 in cash and a .25-cal. handgun, thus providing sufficient evidence for officers to arrest Bobby Dale Young, 49, a bartender, and his wife Judith Ann Young, 37, a U.S. bankruptcy-court clerk. But there was an extraordinary twist to the bust: the tipster was the Youngs' 13-year-old daughter Deanna...