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...several car crashes before they were diagnosed. They were related to sleepiness at the wheel." Sleep apnea is linked to age and obesity; as the population grows older and puts on pounds, the incidence of sleep apnea rises, Mohsenin says. According to one report, sleep apnea diagnoses have increased twelvefold since the 1990s. (Read "E.U. Pilots Fight for Shorter Shifts...
This year as many as 50,000 automobiles will be brought into the U.S. privately, a twelvefold increase in three years. Herbert Singer, a Munich car dealer, claims that half his sales are exported to the U.S. Says he: "I could sell five cars a day to Americans if I had the right color." The savings can be big, even after the $8,000 or so is paid to ship a car from West Germany and adapt it to U.S. safety and emission standards. Example: a Mercedes 500 SEL, when bought from an authorized dealer in the U.S., is about...
...biggest celebrations after earnings reports were announced occurred on Wall Street. The bull market has pushed up trading volume and the level of broker commissions. Paine Webber's earnings rose 525%, to $23 million; E.F. Hutton's increased more than twelvefold; First Boston's jumped 81%. After more than two years of mostly terrible corporate profits, last week's earnings results signaled that the worst of the recession is over...
...York Blood Center imported some 22,000 units of "discarded" European red blood cells. By last year, the center was acting as well for other large U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, Chicago, Pittsburgh and New Orleans, and the volume increased nearly twelvefold. Though Euroblood represents only a small portion of the ten million units of blood now needed in the U.S. each year, many doctors think this volume is already too high. German-born Dr. Klaus Mayer, director of New York's Memorial Hospital Blood Bank, points out that "the impetus for collecting blood in our communities becomes blunted...
This selfish British mercantilism has been remarkably effective in protecting and promoting British manufacturing. British exports to the Colonies have multiplied twelvefold since the beginning of this century, from £344 thousand to £4.2 million in the peak year of 1771, while American exports only tripled, to £1.3 million. The actual trade deficit with England was running at an annual rate of £1.6 million in the first half of this decade. And the American dependence was real enough, with Britain and its West Indian colonies taking most of colonial exports?tobacco, flour, fish, rice, indigo, in that...