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When 13,000 of the 17,500 American air-traffic controllers walked off their jobs last week, they put at risk far more than their own paychecks and jobs. The strike was also a karate chop at not just a key component of the American transportation system, the largest, costliest and most complex network on earth, but also, and ultimately, a blow aimed at the entire U.S. economy...
Arriving at the studio at 5, Hartman sits down with Sonja Selby-Wright, one of Good Morning's three rotating producers, and goes over the day's schedule: an interview with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, a peek at the world's costliest diamond and a look at new and unusual watches. When Selby-Wright leaves, Hartman settles down in his second-floor dressing room to read background material, stopping now and then to sip coffee and take a bite or two of a bagel. To keep everyone awake, ABC has placed coffee urns, cartons of orange...
...basket of 101 common items, among them food, clothing and bus and taxi rides. In its latest survey, M.C.E. found that all of its European cities were more expensive than the Big Apple, by total amounts that ranged from 16% for Lisbon to 67% for Stockholm, the costliest city. The Swedish capital has wrested that dubious distinction from Geneva, which is now No. 4 on the price parade, just behind Oslo and Brussels. The next six, in descending order of costliness: Copenhagen, The Hague, Paris, Vienna, Frankfurt and London...
...synfuel projects are already either being constructed or operated around the country, many oilmen remain unenthusiastic about starting up plants of their own. The technology for synfuels is expensive and cumbersome, and even though petroleum prices seem to climb higher almost daily, synfuel continues to be one of the costliest and least competitive of all energy sources...
...that approach. Many Swedes fear that the government's hands-off policy spells economic doom. But at week's end strike-bound Swedes were heartened by news that mediators had proposed pay boosts ranging from 6.8% to 7.3%. With that offer, an end to Sweden's costliest quarrel could finally be at hand...