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...represented 20% of an airplane's operating costs, soared to 33? in the U.S. (72? abroad). The climb at least doubled the fuel portion of each jumbo jet's operating costs. Inflation drove up landing fees, insurance rates, wages. To stay solvent, the airlines had to hike fares...
...increases continue apace, the rate of increase is starting to slack off. Last year's rise in fees was $580, and the current hike represents slightly higher rates of increase in tuition and board and a much lower one in room costs...
...cases, he can call upon advice from specialists at the University of Utah. He also has available the services of an ambulance plane. Best of all, says Norton, he doesn't have to take a "pay cut or suddenly pull a kid out of college" whenever insurance companies hike malpractice rates...
...chief of state-owned British Airways is Sir Frank Mc-Fadzean, the former chairman of the Shell Transport & Trading Co. Further, the nationalized industries are being encouraged to bring prices in line with production costs; the Electricity Board, a state utility monopoly, has been permitted a 40% rate hike. British Steel Corp...
Much to the surprise of some Western observers, the unity of the poor in confrontation with the rich has survived, even though the OPEC price hike did more harm to the economies of underdeveloped nations than to those of the West. Most First World countries ultimately succeeded in boosting exports of their manufactured goods and technology enough to offset the higher import costs of petroleum. Developing countries, on the other hand, have had to spend so much of their foreign currency reserves on costlier oil or petroleum products that many have had to cut back sharply on development plans requiring...