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...backward over those years, to $227. The rise in productivity among U.S. manufacturing industries, however, was a brisk 4% each year from 1981 to 1985. During most of the previous decade, this measure of output per worker had increased only 1.2% annually. In fact, last year's U.S. productivity hike of 3.5% surpassed that of Japan (2.8%) and West Germany...
...steel are prime examples. High unemployment during the recession of 1981-82 gave companies more leverage to seek wage concessions or at least hold the line. The newest challenge to wages has been the economy's takeover frenzy, which has inspired managers to pare down work forces and hike profits as a partial defense against marauders...
...hike imposed by the state's largest insurance carrier, doctors in South Florida declared last Wednesday "Disaster Day." Nearly 80% of Broward County's 600 specialists, including neurologists, obstetricians and orthopedic surgeons, resigned from emergency-room duties. Twelve of the county's 16 hospitals now refuse to accept trauma patients with head and spinal-cord injuries...
Somewhere along the line, Lawson, an odd duck by any measure, got press smart. He knew he was photogenic, he knew he was bright, and he knew his cause was right. Innocent black man arrested for taking a hike? It was a natural. The notoriety his case received has led to his involvement in other "meaningful battles," as he calls them...
...military spending. The President had proposed a $320 billion defense appropriation; House Democrats wanted $288 billion for defense -- virtually the same as this year -- while the Senate was holding out for $301 billion. The compromise would give the Pentagon $296 billion, but only if the President agreed to hike taxes to help pay for the cost. If Reagan rejected the tax increase, the Pentagon would get just $289 billion. The Democratic resolution attempts to lock Reagan into a damned-if- he-does, damned-if-he-doesn't position, placing the burden of new taxes on his shoulders...