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...movie, which had doubled since 1977, actually declined this year (from $9.6 million to $9.4 million). Of the early summer hits, none ran up a tab of more than $20 million. Star Trek II, which has matched its predecessor's early torrid pace, was made for $11 million, one-fourth the cost of the original; the sequel returned its production cost to Paramount within ten days of release...
During the day, about 30 employees install and tune the six mammoth engines, which each look something like a car engine one-fourth the length of a football field...
Part of the Harvard-Craigie Arms agreement states that between one-third and one-fourth of the building's units would remain low and moderate income housing after the improvements are completed. But the task force claims that the planned renovations will drive the rent out of that range...
Firestone has undertaken a major reorganization in order to bring about tighter control of inventories. The company cut down the types of tires it keeps in stock from an incredible 7,200 to 2,000. Its huge distribution center in Cranbury, N.J., now keeps only one-fourth as many tires as it did four years...
Even more hurtful to farmers has been the worldwide recession. This and the strength of the dollar abroad have cut into U.S. agricultural exports, which normally account for nearly one-fourth of farm income. But so far this year exports of corn, for example, are down about onefourth. The Soviet Union, stung by the 1980 U.S. grain embargo (which one economic consulting firm estimates cost American agribusiness $22 billion), has spread out its purchases among more suppliers. Of the 43 million metric tons of grain it is expected to import from the West this year, the Soviet Union...