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...figure is 37%. As a result, experts are taking their first long look at the machinery in years. What they are finding is a costly, cumbersome system that, for example, adds 24.3?, or 69%, to the price of a pound of chicken between farm and check-out counter (see chart). Some indicators...
...pace at which the nation saves its earnings and invests its resources translates directly into reduced economic activity and fewer jobs. Yet the share of resources devoted to investment in the U.S. lags behind that in other major industrialized countries-even severely strapped Italy and Britain (see chart). What is more, the need for additional goods and technology has never been greater. In the next few years, enormous outlays will be required to develop alternative sources of energy such as nuclear power, build the Alaska pipeline, improve pollution controls, erect more efficient factories and continue rebuilding the decaying cities...
Many policymakers and bankers in Europe are assailing floating rates partly on the argument that they have not, as promised, ended speculative swings in world currency markets. Instead, currency fluctuations have intensified (see chart) and losses as the result of miscalculations have grown larger. Banks such as Banque de Bruxelles, Lloyds, the Union Bank of Switzerland and the now defunct Franklin National in the U.S. lost heavily last year by guessing wrong about which way-or how far -rates would float. So did some corporations that have tried to hedge against fluctuations by contracting to buy and sell currencies...
Most remarkable of all, for the first time Soviet citizens will be able to see a Soyuz lift-off live on then-home TV sets. Soviet and American planners worked for months to draw up a mission sequence (see chart) that would allow live coverage of the main ASTP events-including the Thursday docking and the Stafford-Leonov press conference on Friday-during daylight hours so as to reach the largest possible worldwide TV audience...
...with Tomita's second album of synthesized sound: Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. It has already sold more than 100,000 copies, a success partly attributable to a mammoth marketing campaign by RCA. Last week the album was not only No. 1 on one classical chart but had also worked its way into the pop top 50 and even onto the jazz chart of the trade magazine Record World...