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...cost cutting has its good side: it has held inflation in check. U.S. industry's labor costs per unit of output, a major factor determining the pace of price increases, actually fell at an annual rate of 3.2% in the last three months of 1993, causing some economists to scoff at the Federal Reserve's fears about a revival of inflation. ("What inflation?" Clinton growled to aides late last week.) meeting.) The Fed is on firmer ground, however, in its reported belief that too much of the recent economic growth has been fueled by cheap credit. Unable to stretch stagnant...
...security guard unit, for example, had four of its stewards removed, leaving just one steward to represent 90 guards. That one is Howard Reid, the least experienced of the five stewards elected by the guards...
...manager nodded as if he knew this all along. "We could supply those items for perhaps $6.5 million a unit, including spares," he offered. My companion said he had $5 million in mind. But if the Russian-built weapons had the latest navigation and guidance systems, his Middle East buyer might be willing to pay more...
Members of Hamas say hundreds of activists in the Sheik Radwan quarter of Gaza City have been arrested by Israeli commando squads during the overnight curfews since the Feb. 25 Hebron massacre. Two weeks ago, an Israeli undercover unit shot dead six Fatah Hawks -- an armed group loyal to the P.L.O. -- in the Jabalia refugee camp. The Israeli army apologized for the shooting -- not because the Palestinians, who were carrying weapons, were shot without warning, but because they were Arafat's men. "If they had been Hamas members, we would have been justified in killing them," contended an Israeli military...
...Linda Fairstein, head of the Manhattan district attorney's sex-crimes unit, will speak on the legal system's response to rape at the Institute of Politics on April...