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...traditional view of women as supplementary wage-earners ignores the reality that lower middle-class Asian families typically depend on two or more salaries in the household. The unemployment of 500 women threatens to seriously disrupt Chinatown's family-oriented community of more than 6000 people...
That means mounting trouble for Japanese companies that depend upon export sales, since they must charge customers more dollars to receive the same number of yen. In a report last week, the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry revealed that manufacturers of cars, computers, semiconductors, cameras, color television sets and videocassette recorders were planning to raise prices further in the U.S., adding to recent increases. Toyota, the largest Japanese automaker, has marked up its price tags by an average of 7% since the beginning of the year. A Toyota Cressida now costs $17,480, up 11.4% from...
Last week's turmoil added to the uncertainty that has been plaguing the muncipal-bond market for months. In December the House passed a tax-reform bill that would place a 25% minimum tax on certain munis, including bonds to build stadiums and industrial parks. Investors and municipalities that depend on bond issues will not know where they stand until tax reform finally passes Congress or dies...
...kind of coincidence that police often depend upon to solve difficult crimes. A 22-year-old woman was walking along a street in central Stockholm shortly before midnight on Feb. 28 when a man ran by her and paused under a streetlight. In that brief instant, she got a good look at the person who only moments before may have gunned down Prime Minister Olof Palme. The woman turned out to be a portrait artist, and last week she helped police assemble a composite sketch of the suspected assassin. Copies of the computer- enhanced likeness were immediately transmitted around...
...world from this rostrum . . . It is hard to detect any serious proposals on the part of the U.S. Administration to get down to resolving the cardinal problem of eliminating the nuclear threat." Gorbachev went on to hint that fixing a date for his next summit meeting with Reagan would depend on progress at the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms talks in Geneva. Said he: "There is no sense in holding empty talks." Responded White House Spokesman Larry Speakes: "We can meet and have a productive meeting without progress at Geneva...