Word: costs
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...unit labor costs in manufacturing, which had risen 45% over the previous two years, increased even further because of automatic cost-of-living increases and social security obligations that have skyrocketed to 100% of a worker's basic salary. These gains, negotiated by militant trade unions, fail to touch a booming black-market labor force of some 8 million who work for low pay and no fringe benefits...
...fact, Israel's insistence on keeping its mainly agricultural settlements in the occupied territories is based neither on security requirements nor historical parallels but on economic and political considerations. The approximately 90 settlements (20 of them in the Sinai) have cost about $1 billion to build. They are inhabited today by only about 11,000 Israelis: 3,000 in Sinai, 4,500 in the West Bank and 3,500 on the Golan Heights. In addition, about 50,000 Israelis have settled in the formerly Arab-held suburbs of Jerusalem. Altogether, their numbers are not great, but the settlers have...
...dollar has primarily been depressed by the U.S. trade deficit, which in turn largely reflects the high cost of imported oil. Carter in a press conference last week argued that until Congress stops fiddling and passes his energy program -which is designed to promote conservation and cut imports-the dollar will continue under pressure, and interest rates will stay high...
...typical month. One out of 80 will be attacked during the same period. Among the nation's 1 million secondary school teachers, 5,200 will be attacked-one-fifth of them seriously -in any given month, while about 6,000 will be robbed. Vandalism, meanwhile, will cost schools as much as $600 million a year...
Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci said yesterday Cambridge street crews did a "pretty good job of plowing" during the weekend, and estimated the total cost of the snow removal effort will reach...