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Major labor negotiations are due to take place during the year. The auto and rubber workers and the teamsters are all bargaining for new contracts. Although such groups represent only a small fraction of the total American labor force, they traditionally have set the wage pattern for the rest of unionized employees and even influenced wage settlements for many nonunion workers...
...sometimes thought that the arrival of the moving picture made the still image obsolete," says Harold Evans, editor of the London Times. "I believe, quite to the contrary, that the still image has never been more powerful. It is a moment frozen in time; it preserves forever a finite fraction of the infinite time of the universe...
...smart money was still on software; prerecorded tapes will be like records, albeit (at an average price of $69) expensive records. Nowadays the smart money has wised up, and the action has moved to rentals. Why pay the price to own Ordinary People when you can pay a fraction of the cost (sometimes as little as a dollar a day) to rent it? Now the movie companies want in. "We couldn't continue to invest millions of dollars to feed this market and not get any of it back," says Leon Knize, senior marketing vice president for Warner Home...
More than 22,000 horses and burros have been corralled over the past nine years, but no one is overly happy with the program. The BLM spends more than $300 to corral a horse, yet recoups only a fraction of that in adoption fees, which average $80. About 3% of the horses cannot be placed, and federal law requires that these be returned to the range or shot. Few Piceance Basin horses will meet this fate; most of them are strong, healthy and trainable, and will be snatched up fast...
...market for all kinds of sport shoes alone has reached $1 billion, although perhaps a third of those are worn for fashion rather than fitness, in itself a commentary on contemporary values. While a fraction of these expenditures is not fitness related, Americans also spent $5 billion on health foods and vitamins; roughly $50 million for diet and exercise books; $1 billion on cosmetic surgery; another $6 billion for diet drinks and $240 million for barbells and aerobic dance programs. Health clubs and corporate fitness centers add another $5 billion, sporting togs and gear $8 billion, gadgetry-from water filters...