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Under the system, farmers are free to leave the land and benefit from the local government's retirement and welfare system. Rotner, who has done extensive analyses of the villa's finances, says the workers by law receive wages on par with other Italian farmers, which in some cases exceed blue-collar wages in Italy...
...also entitled to select "demonstration sports," and has chosen baseball and tennis. With American competitors in such abundance, Wolper thought $200 million would not be unreasonable. Outbidding CBS, NBC and an independent consortium that included Norman Lear, ABC paid $225 million. Including foreign rights, broadcast revenues should exceed $300 million, one-third of which goes to the International Olympic Committee...
Germany's rate of currency depreciation and her State deficits now far exceed those of Soviet Russia. In foreign exchange, rates for the mark are so vastly depreciated that they can be expressed only in incalculably large figures. In both London and New York prominent banks have refused to quote, buy or sell the vanishing German currency any longer. It is likewise being stricken off the prominent European stock exchanges, where ordinarily foreign exchange is traded in actively...
...Dawkins, 45, U.S. Army (ret.). As head of Lehman Brothers' public finance group, the former All-America halfback will work with states and municipalities in raising money, a position that will allow him to make friends and influence people around the country. His salary and bonuses will easily exceed $100,000 a year. Dawkins has never worked on Wall Street, but Lehman Brothers bought a name and a remarkable track record...
...today is worth less than a 50-shekel note was in 1980. The country's G.N.P is expected to grow only 2% this year, after stagnating in 1982. Foreign debt is, at $20.9 billion, one of the highest per capita in the world, and the trade deficit may exceed $5 billion this year. The U.S. General Accounting Office warned recently that a substantial portion of Washington's $2.5 billion in military and economic aid was being used to help Israel repay past debts. Without increased levels of assistance, Israel could soon owe the U.S. as much in annual...