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EXECUTIVES AT APPLE COMputer's Japanese subsidiary are still laughing about the time a shipping-company employee drove up in a refrigeration truck to pick up crates filled with Macintosh computers. He had seen the company's rainbow- hued apple logo on the boxes and assumed they contained fresh produce. The irony was fitting: in the first few years after the 1983 entry of Apple into Japan's $7 billion personal-computer market, its Macintoshes, unsold, were gathering dust on the shelves of computer shops in Japan...
Future growth depends upon a solution. Dave King, 54, was laid off last week from his toolmaking job in Troy, Michigan, only two months after finding the position. He fears he will have to take a truck-driving job at $7 an hour, less than half his former pay. "The older people like me are really in a bind," he says. "The younger ones can get retraining. But who's going to retrain you if you've got only five or 10 years left?" The depth of the need for some coherent system of retraining was demonstrated recently in California...
Poets and playwrights and novelists have always processed political events into entertainments and legends. Television now hastens reality into art with a sort of Irish efficiency: when an Irish Republican Army terrorist-hero blows up a British army truck in midafternoon, the deed will probably be a song in the pubs that night. Such ready glorification is one reason that no peaceful settlement has been found. Sitcom writers have developed similar reflexes. Topicality, however, ages a script rapidly. It strands an episode in time, and makes reruns seem alienated, quaint...
...official minimum monthly wage is 5,000 shillings ($17) in Tanzania, where a loaf of bread costs 190 shillings and a pair of trousers 4,000 shillings. "Nobody in Tanzania expects to survive on his salary," says Thomas Mrima, a truck driver who plies between Tanzania, Rwanda and Zaire. "Everybody makes money with everything he can lay his hands on. They steal government stores and sell them over the border. They use government machinery for private building contracts." Ripping off the government has become a popular sport: it is thought of as stealing from thieves...
...ante up for it themselves. GM, having spent more than $3.4 billion on health care for its employees last year -- or $900 per vehicle -- has decided to apply the brakes. Last week 100,000 office-level employees at the company's finance unit and its U.S. car and truck division received memos informing them that they will be asked to pay a monthly premium of as yet unrevealed size for their health insurance next year. Retirees will also have to pay part of the cost of postretirement medical benefits. Unlike blue- collar workers represented by the United Auto Workers...