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...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...
What should be done to prevent yet another San Diego or Los Angeles midair tragedy? Experts in all segments of aviation contend that the Federal Aviation Administration has moved much too slowly in developing airborne electronic devices, already used by some military jets, that could warn an airline pilot when he is dangerously close to another plane and flash directions for avoiding...
...blame for the snail-paced progress. But the bigger obstacle may be political. Some $8 billion has accumulated in an aviation trust fund dedicated to improving air safety; the money has been piling up from an 8% tax on every airline passenger's ticket. Many in the aviation industry contend that Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole, who is FAA Administrator Donald Engen's boss, has been cowed by the White House Office of Management and Budget into holding these assigned funds in reserve against the federal deficit. "Hogwash!" says OMB Director James Miller III. "If I had a bias, it would...
While Lauren pleases millions of consumers, he provokes no small amount of criticism from fashion purists of almost every stripe. Some devotees of hand-tailored menswear contend that his high-priced, British-inspired suits fall short of the originals in both quality and refinement. "Savile Pseud suits" is what Writer Tom Wolfe, a notably natty dresser, has called them. A few fashion mavens fault some of Lauren's designs for being too pastoral and sentimental, especially in comparison with Calvin Klein's sleek, urbane creations. The skeptics view Lauren's claims of "good taste" as a euphemism for yuppified conformity...
...indicated that the Israelis blundered in their strong insistence on the highly charged question of Soviet Jewry. Domestic politics clearly played a large role in the Israeli performance. Under a power-sharing agreement, Shamir and Prime Minister Shimon Peres are due to swap jobs in October. Some government insiders contend that Shamir aimed to undermine the Helsinki talks to deny Peres a foreign policy triumph. Hence, they say, Shamir pushed hard to put Soviet Jewry on the agenda. But if Shamir upstaged Peres in Helsinki, Peres played an impressive card of his own: on Thursday he announced he would meet...