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...people to fill entry- level jobs ((ECONOMY & BUSINESS, July 20)) that there is a group out there with disabilities who are ready and willing to work. My son is 20, mentally retarded and gainfully employed at McDonald's in Bakersfield, Calif. His functioning level and self-esteem have shot sky-high, and his employer has a dependable, capable employee who is happy to be working at any wage...
...hire his firm for their defense. According to federal law-enforcement officials, Levine also used his expertise for a less innocent pursuit: buying stock in companies that he knew were about to be acquired, and then selling the shares at a profit after a takeover bid sent the prices sky-high...
...gravity and the laws of economics. While the prime rate for corporate customers has plunged from 20 1/ 2% to 9 1/2% since 1981 and the average new mortgage rate has dropped from 17.7% to 11.6% during that time, credit-card interest in most areas has remained at a sky-high level of more than 18% annually. That is a rate once associated with local loan sharks rather than with your friendly neighborhood banker...
...predicting moderately faster growth for the second half of 1985, board members counted on a continued downward drift in the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar. The sky-high price of the dollar has been the chief cause of the trade deficit, because it has made American exports expensive and goods from abroad alluringly cheap. A weakening of the dollar would slow down the pace of imports and thus encourage consumption of domestic goods. Although the dollar has risen a bit in recent weeks, it now stands some 9% lower against major foreign currencies than it did when...
...Navy called Weinberger's removal of officers before an investigation extraordinary, the Defense Secretary said this kind of reprimand would become "standard" for such excesses. A spokesman for Grumman Aerospace Corp., the defense contractor that made the ashtrays for the E-2C surveillance aircraft it also manufactures, explained the sky-high price tag: "We are not ashtray manufacturers." Grumman has offered the Navy a refund that will lower the price to $50 an ashtray, but Weinberger has better ideas for dealing with the inflated cost. He proposed, only half-jokingly, to substitute "old mayonnaise jars for ashtrays...