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...coal miners have refused to work overtime until they get a settlement giving them basic increases of $18 to $22 on weekly wages ranging from $57 to $83; the Heath government has offered an increase of $5 to $6 a week. Anything more, said Heath, would exceed the 11% limit of his Phase III counter-inflation plan, plus cause other unions to demand similar boosts...
...enforce the code. All elected officials should be required to file a financial disclosure statement, listing "all assets legally and constructively owned," "all debts in excess of $1,000 and to whom owed," and, "if a partner in a law firm, a list of all clients whose annual fees exceed $2,000 or comprise 5% or more of the firm's annual business." Such disclosure "must be mandatory, periodic and accessible to the public...
Still, McQueen works hard and al most manages to triumph over his star presence, while Hoffman submerges himself eccentrically and amusingly in his coward's role. Papillon inevitably refers us to old movies rather than to reality. Audiences whose expectations do not exceed their grasp will find it a much more comfortable vehicle for escape than any that McQueen & Co. discover on location...
This year it will probably exceed $800 million, up from $92 million in 1972. In only three years, the U.S. has become China's second most important international trading partner, after Japan...
...copper used in minting billions of pennies annually is growing prohibitively expensive. Last January, the world price of copper was 50? per Ib. Now the price is more than $1 per Ib. and, the Treasury Department notes, if that figure reaches $ 1.20, the cost of making a cent will exceed the face value of the coin. Metal profiteers call that the "melting point," and it would usher in a vast hoarding of pennies in order eventually to melt them down for sale on the open market...