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While Air Florida's grounding was sudden, the once flourishing airline had been in trouble for some time. Founded in 1972 to fly within Florida, it grew rapidly at the end of the decade, when airline deregulation permitted wide-open competition. By 1980 Air Florida was offering low-cost flights to major East Coast cities and to Europe, the Caribbean and Central America. But price wars blasted its profits, and aggressive rivals like Delta and Pan American flew off with much of the Miami-based carrier's business. Also damaging was the 1982 crash of an Air Florida...
...ailing copper and steel industries have long complained that their problems are mainly the result of overseas competition. Last week both industries received some support. In separate decisions, the International Trade Commission, an independent federal agency, ruled that both copper and steel have been seriously injured by low-cost foreign shipments...
...Sales of low-cost machines are far less than anticipated...
Analysts attending the show set things off by drastically revising their 1984 sales forecasts for home computers, the low-cost, low-power machines. The Yankee Group, a Boston-based industry watcher, slashed its projections for the year from 7.1 million to 4.9 million. Future Computing, the Richardson, Texas, research firm, lowered its estimate from 6.5 million to 5.5 million units. That would be only a 10% increase over last year, good growth for almost any other business but skimpy for an industry in which sales have been doubling and tripling annually. Says Harry Edelson, a technology analyst for the investment...
OBVIOUSLY, THE volunteers' reward is largely intangible. Even the program option of spending an extra month after the conclusion of work as tourists--and still enjoying the same low-cost ticket home--doesn't make up for lost work time in the U.S., or even for the original plane ticket itself. Room, board, and some travel costs within Israel are paid by the Israel Defense Forces, but General Davidi frankly admits. "There's no obligation other than the moral one, once you've started. At any time a volunteer can simply say. "That's it,' and leave...