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...taxes have fallen from $88 billion in 1968 to an estimated annual rate of $84 billion in this year's first half. Workers have won many extortionate wage raises?labor costs have been rising more than 7% annually?but since 1968 the real weekly earnings of the American wage earner have inched up from an average $90.67 to only $91.96. In the past 2½ years alone, inflation has cut the value of the dollar by 12¢ and the once-prized greenback is now the weakest major currency in the world...
...economy can certainly use a magic trick. Inflation was held last year to less than 6%, and fish-meal exports rose to the highest tonnage ever. But the world price of copper, Peru's most important foreign-exchange earner, has dropped from 700 in March...
...African wildlife. It can be used, first, to convince local governments that, if properly exploited, wildlife can earn their keep-and even turn a profit. Indeed, as a tourist attraction, game preserves already generate $50 million annually in Kenya. Since tourism is Kenya's second largest money earner (after agriculture), park land there is worth nearly as much per acre as the finest agricultural land...
...service steers clear of what Earner calls "blatant advocacy." Says he: "There is advocacy in the sense that we exist at all, but our reporting and editing is strictly professional. There is no pitch or special line." All CNS reports contain a complete listing of sources and their telephone numbers. The data help subscribers to use CNS stories as a starting point for their own coverage. So far the clients have been impressed. Says Marvin Siegel, an assistant metropolitan editor of the Times: "It's the sort of service every big city should have." In one recent three-week...
...with most such projects, CNS has financial worries. Revenues currently run about $10,000 a month v. $28,000 in expenditures, and the Ford grant expires next summer. Still, Editor Earner is guardedly optimistic that the service will become self-sustaining. "Barring mishaps," he says, "we should hang in." To reach a broader market for news of the ghetto, Earner hopes to begin a weekly newsletter aimed at business executives and social service agencies, and he is exploring the possibilities of a school kit dealing with such topics as narcotics and building-code violations. The thirst for improved coverage...