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Because of Wordsworth's "voluminous output," the discovery of new versions and major rewritings of unpublished poems are not unusual among Wordsworthians, Reed said. "It's business as usual," he added...
Argentina promised last week that it would slash its government deficit from 14% of national output to 9% as a way of curbing inflation. But Alfonsin may have trouble getting Argentine labor unions to accept wage restraint. The opposition Peronist party tightly controls many of the unions. Alfonsin has tried unsuccessfully to push a bill through Congress that would have made unions more democratic...
...fraction of the $335 billion that is on loan to more than two dozen Latin American countries. The biggest debtors are Brazil ($96 billion) and Mexico ($85 billion). Both are chafing under IMF-imposed austerity programs that have slowed down their economies. Mexico reported last week that its national output fell 4.7% in 1983, the worst performance in more than 50 years. Brazil's production dropped...
...success of Canon has been a blow to Nikon, its chief rival. Canon now produces 31% of Japan's output of single-lens reflex cameras, in contrast to Nikon's 16%. Moreover, Canon draws raves from some professional photographers, particularly for the sharpness of its lenses. Canon also wins high marks for its field service, and its technicians are known for driving all night or hopping aboard airplanes to come to the aid of professional photographers with broken gear. In the prestige race, though, Nikon still has an edge with many professionals. Says Nikon Managing Director Hiroshi Moromisato...
...Postal Service corporation is carrying that load with fewer people: 678,845 vs. 741,000 in 1971. Employee productivity has gone up 43%, chiefly because of mechanical mail sorting. In 1971, a postal worker processed 120,212 pieces a year; now a person handles 173,320. Output will go up even more when high-speed optical scanners, which read addresses, convert them into printed bar codes and then send them off for automatic sorting into 136,000 carrier routes, are fully installed...