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...year, estimates Austrian trade official Karl Syrovatka, 550,000 working people will be carrying the burden of 750,000 unemployed, 1.4 million on ostensibly temporary layoffs and 1.1 million pensioners. Between September and October alone in the two remaining republics of the former Yugoslavia, industrial output dropped one-quarter. Last week the Crvena Zastava industrial works in Kragujevac closed down the assembly lines for the Yugo automobile; the only production unit still functioning makes weapons...
...economic collapse. When unemployment, forced early retirement and make-work training schemes are taken together, roughly 40% of the east's labor force is out of work; nearly 3 million jobs have disappeared since unification. Although Bonn is pumping more than $100 billion a year into the east, economic output has shrunk to a third of its preunification level, and the long-predicted rebound is not in sight...
...would hope to do four or five times the amount of sales," said Boston Concessions Group manager James E. Bronson. "Most of the vendors will be doubling their normal output...
...offense, which recorded its lowest output in 20 years last season, was also ravaged by graduation...
...news allowed George Bush to charge that when Democrats say "everything is going to hell . . . they're wrong." To be sure, the unexpectedly strong 2.7% third-quarter rise in gross domestic product -- the nation's output of goods and services -- was the best news in months. Unfortunately, it might not be quite as good as it looked; the increase resulted partly from a rise in inventories, which could translate as a pile-up of unsold goods. Other figures gave a highly mixed picture: personal income and consumer spending up, durable-goods orders and consumer confidence down. Even mixed news...