Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...standstill. A main part of San Juan's problem is high prices. A double room in a "luxury" hotel runs $40 to $60 a day, not including meals. Stateside newspapers are sold for 30? and a package of Life Savers for 25?. Some hotels have a one dollar extra daily charge simply for having a phone in the room. Despite dwindling revenues, most hotel owners refuse to lower prices, figuring that it is too late to attract new business...
...great, absolutely fabulous, what's happening in the movies," he said. "The day of the Hollywood-made-and-controlled film is over. The day of the multi-million dollar monolith like Hello. Dolly is over. The only reason I'd make a movie in Hollywood is to make a picture about Hollywood, as it were- shot on location." He leaned over and laughed raucously, his eyes glowing mischievously at the prospect. "Seen All About Eve a lot?" he asked...
Just the magnitude of General Motors makes it an enterprise of the highest public concern. The dollar sales of all products in 1968 reached the level of $22.775 billions. This was 47 per cent higher than that of the next biggest American firm. Standard Oil of New Jersey, more than 50 per cent higher than that of the Ford Motor Company which stood fourth in revenues, and more than the business done by the four largest non-U.S. corporations combined. It amounted to more than 1/8 of the gross receipts of the United States Government...
...comparison of production with cost in energy, time and money." Anyone who attempts to apply that definition can turn up some odd results. Harvard Researcher Ann Carter has been measuring the efficiency of various U.S. industries by gauging the amounts of capital and labor needed to produce a dollar's worth of glass, insurance, hotel service and so on. By these purely statistical standards, efficiency is rising fastest in the telephone and telegraph industries, among others. Even auto repair is rated moderately efficient...
Coming atop Italy's other problems, the action was enough to bring the once strong lira down to 650 to the dollar last week, its lowest level since 1952. The irony is that Italy's labor costs are lower than those of any other industrialized country, and rapidly rising productivity will offset much of the wage increases won in the autumn strikes. Yet to achieve the rate of investment necessary for the economy to continue to grow, the country needs a government capable of inspiring confidence. Until such a government comes to power, even Italian officials admit that...