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...Median-priced homes are the part of the market hit hardest by the slump...
...result of slow sales, house prices are now dipping in many parts of the country for the first time in years. Nationally, the median price for a single-family new home inched down $200 from May to June, to $71,600. California Developer Peter Landau has slashed the prices on his two-bedroom Countrylane Townhouses in the San Fernando Valley outside Los Angeles from...
...housing experts believe that the sluggishness in prices will continue long enough to produce a drop in housing prices over the course of the entire year. That has not happened since the recession year of 1970, when the median price declined to $23,400 from $25,600 the previous year...
...flat fees that work out to as much as $300 an hour. New York's Louis Nizer, whose clients have included Blacklist Victim John Henry Faulk and major corporations in the film industry, commands a phenomenal $350 an hour, thus earning the equivalent of the nation's median annual income in approximately 44 hours. Admits former Watergate Special Prosecutor James F. Neal, now practicing law in Nashville: "Frankly, I don't want to disclose my hourly rate. I'm embarrassed by hourly rates-not just mine, but everybody...
More immediately, air carriers, large and small alike, last weekend were confronting a problem that suddenly loomed for all of them: the threat of an illegal strike by air traffic controllers. Long a militant lot, the controllers were demanding, according to the Government, median pay raises of $10,000, plus cost of living adjustments that would bring their top annual base salary to $73,420. The union threatened a coast-to-coast shutdown if the Reagan Administration continued to resist. A full walkout would ground about three-fourths of U.S. commercial flights. But a partial strike would probably be manageable...