European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2& the stars and stripes tuesday december 6,1988 temperatures december 4 today s crossword it Taai brim no 4 1it 41 a a b 1 60 17 9 in � u m n w is mrdutt Smrdu la51 a 49 a 44 2937 b 31 14 33 a cmtitvi.sc., u �s5 27si a 17 243 x u 24cuxmli � 33 Hilo s4 k n h m itcckntwoho.1 3 22 cow Uiha 14 ,1 u m30 27 to 47� 24 41 3 european weather Penan or to do Dir m of witty m Fth Tembek ism a in Rowh. A d it Tiv Jan fat i a. To a saw he i in Arinow Sjo. Kim pm fix dirt 133, itt to it. Curt. Fofi Vataj w -36 2 g-s8sbl.si 39 315j 40 w Lotfy 69 Nim Mil m.24 Nero than 72 44nwvirtdly.e is x a Mac 50 11na, so 7 Nerti Primc b 20t�.rtmiwl.t is 31 it 12 17ortnuj m it 4 7143 i 48 374/ n Kunttu 1wu i u 48 7n so no 11 75 Mii 25 w loss to an � re flu by conversion rates London up monday closing rates for the , Dollar to other currencies figures Are expressed in dollars to the British Pound other local currencies i dollars 11 Pra d Gold Dot u2sm m in saw a .h.h. Inn. B 4t 43 Mutl r Allim Gentit. R in 43 p a. R. 45 j3rt�r 0 of it u pm .40 31h 3t san 7 47 is 30 b a 2. M 31a a 72. A i 93 b71 34 he Mutl s�6sj is 74 a 5 72 urn 17 67 is m 31 m 41 27iz a m it to 77 n is h7 � 47 .41 Al _4200bb4co these ire unofficial rates As re ported by wire service and banking sources and they Are listed to give some idea of daily currency fluctuation the Only official rate concerns the tale of German Marki to .personnel for personal use and this will be 1.70 tuesday based on Aprice fixing at midday. Productivity up in 3rd Quarter Washington a manufacturing productivity improved at an annual rate of 5.2 percent in the third Quarter As factories squeezed out 7.2 percent More goods with a increase of Only 1.8 percent in the number of hours worked the gov eminent said monday. The increase in efficiency on As Sembly lines responsible for one up Utah of the nation s economic activity was the Best since the Spring of1987, when manufacturing productivity was improving at an an Nual rate of s.5 percent for Alt of 1987, . Manufacturing productivity improved by 3.4 percent behind the 4 percent guns of Japan France and Italy a 7 percent improvement in Britain and a nearly 8 percent improvement in labor department last month had estimated that third Nianzer productivity improvements among manufacture a key measure of the nation s competitiveness was a tower4.3 those figure were based on less Complete Commerce showing that output had in creased Only 6.s percent on a 2,1 per cent increase in hours worked other labor department data show that Assembly line hiring slowed considerably Over the summer with Only Anet gain of 5,000 new factory jobs in the third Quarter compare wilh425,000 new jobs Over the past year. Analysts attributed much of the slowdown in Assembly line hiring to the drought which caused canneries and other food processing operations to add fewer employees than . The new data showed hourly employee compensation costs including wans benefits and social on employers rising at a annual rate of 4.7 percent in the third Quarter in manufacturing instead oftlie4.6perccnt Fust , after accounting for inflation workers saw no increase i their purchasing Power from the compensation gains. And Over thelast year factory workers have actually lost 0.3 percent in buying Power despite nominal wage and Benefit Gams of 3,8 percent the labor department said Bloom county the far Side it. Anyone for o chorus of Happy Trolli across1 one of a matched pair b Aries Al mansard for one12 lab mediums psych. 14 try totem made ibpunue17 undesirable prom
