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...whole line of film products. A twelve-exposure cassette of Kodacolor II, for example, went from $1.86 to $2.15, and a 36-picture roll of Kodachrome slides jumped from $4.40 to $5.29. The steepest increases were for graphic arts films and photo typesetting paper used by newspapers. Du Pont, a manufacturer of X-ray and industrial films, has raised its prices by as much as 80% in the past year. Polaroid boosted prices 6% earlier this month and said it was considering further increases. Polaroid is fortunate because its instant film uses less silver than other companies' conventional film...
...other hand, so wide a cast has its advantages. All art has a context in other art, and the advanced painting of the 1880s was no exception. Thus, to take only one example, one's understanding of the motives of the Pont-Aven painters, Paul Gauguin and the artists who gathered around him in Brittany?Emile Bernard, Maurice Denis, Paul S�rusier and others?can only be enriched by seeing how their more traditional contemporaries dealt with the same subjects of Breton life. Brittany pervaded the salons of the 1880s. Its landscape of tight villages, stony shorelines, near primitive Christian...
...steel, utility, and other pollution-heavy industries figure that they will save 10% to 35% of their compliance costs. Du Pont predicts that the bubble policy will reduce annual pollution-control expenses at its 52 largest plants from $136 million to $55 million. Big companies have estimated that environmental control accounts for 77% of their federal regulatory costs...
...Johnson's plant in Tehran, which made baby products, was expropriated in August. GM still claims a minority interest in a Tehran auto factory, but it has been run by Iranians since GM pulled out the last five Americans and a Swiss a year ago. Last December Du Pont closed its fiber plant in Isfahan...
Brookings Institution Economist Arthur Okun has a "nightmare vision" of a major employer without company-wide unions such as IBM or Du Pont announcing some day that it was starting cost-of-living allowances in order to "keep the union organizers off their front lawns." Okun warns that if such automatic inflation pay increases spread into nonunion firms, "you can mark that on your calendar as a black day for fighting inflation...