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...charge so much less than privately run centers that it constitutes a major bargain. Intermedics, a heart-pacemaker manufacturer in Freeport, Texas, for example, charges its employees $25 a week per child. At its day care centers in Boston and Cambridge, the Stride Rite shoe company bills workers a maximum of $50 a week...
...certain Alpine vacation areas, travelers' spending accounts for up to 80% of the economy. It is this boom in tourism, however, that has led to concern that an ecological apocalypse may be at hand. Says Gernot Patzelt, Innsbruck University's chief ecologist: "We have to define the maximum load, the point beyond which damages will become irreparable...
Chief among the Sidle commission's concerns was preserving the right of the press to cover combat "to the maximum degree possible consistent with mission security and the safety of U.S. forces." When reporters were barred from Grenada, the Pentagon argued that protecting lives, including those of the correspondents, was more important than keeping the American public fully in formed. Journalists protested that they had taken risks along with troops ever since the Civil War and had respected news embargoes when necessary to protect the secrecy of military plans and the lives of U.S. service men. "No commander...
...minute-by-minute basis at the airports that account for 76% of the delays-New York City's Kennedy and La Guardia, Atlanta, Chicago, Denver and Newark. In Denver, for example, there are 58 scheduled landings between 11 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., although the airport's maximum is 30. The Government threat infuriated some carriers, which place much of the blame on shortages of fully qualified air-traffic controllers. One FAA official likened the airlines to a stubborn beast of burden. Said he: "Sometimes there's only one way to get a mule's attention...
Costa Rica, long an island of tranquillity in troubled Central America, is experiencing some unaccustomed turbulence. Minister of Security Angel Edmundo Solano Calderón put the nation's 6,000-man civil guard on "maximum alert" two weeks ago, citing rumors of a coup. After President Luis Alberto Monge ridiculed the takeover scare as "crazy," a chastened Solano said he had only been joking. But a few days later Monge asked Solano and the 14 other members of his Cabinet to resign, as well as nearly all of the country's 33 ambassadors...