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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Their Mercy. Complaining consumers are the victims of a classic economy of scarcity, which enables contractors and repairmen to charge what they please and get away with it. The need for their services is enormous because few homeowners can perform any complex repair jobs themselves. Construction unions make sure that wages stay high by keeping the supply of craftsmen inadequate to meet the demand In the Oakland, Calif , area, the number of union plumbers, currently 900, is actually shrinking because the union is training only ten apprentices this year. Anachronistic spread-the-work rules prevent the most efficient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE HAMMERING HEADACHE OF HOME REPAIRS | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

...matter could be resolved through compromise, or the workers could make good their threat to form their own company and leave CTIP a shell. In any case, the Italians would like to make one thing clear: "We are not anti-American," says Guglielmo Betto, a rebel employee leader. "Some of our best clients are American companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: The Subsidiary That Rebelled | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

...area, up from 20,000 in 1967. As for Benton & Bowles, its problems persist. Last week the agency discovered that its listing was inadvertently left out of the new phone books. New York Tel promised to insert the listing in the last half of the press run, and to make sure that the early books are distributed to Manhattan's outlying areas where few subscribers are likely to feel a need to call an ad agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communications: PL 8-6200, Where Are You? | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

...gold market, and they also figured to sell the gold at a lucrative markup. By carefully controlling their marketing practices, they could keep the free-market price from becoming depressed. They sold the gold to industrial users, private hoarders and speculators-but only when demand was strong enough to make the deal pay off. Indeed, when the free-market price weakened slightly last month, the three Swiss banks bought more gold in London to help prop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Where the Gold Has Gone | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

Compromise Talk. In addition, central bankers strongly suspect that South Africa has deposited some of its gold in foreign banks and subtracted the deposits from its figures on gold reserves. That ploy would tend to make the boycott look even more ineffective than it is. British statistics show that $222 million in South African gold entered the U.K. last year. Most of it is probably to be found in South Africa's account at the Bank of England, which does not divulge what it is holding-but which has received South African gold ever since that country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Where the Gold Has Gone | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

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