European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 5, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 the stars and stripes Money matters monday september 5,1994 today s rates to following Are fixed rates at which Community banking and credit Union facilities will sell foreign currencies to . Personnel for personal use British Pound. 1.58 dutch a Guildor a a a a a a a. 1.72 German Mark a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a 1.54 note Tho rates above apply within the Host country. Figures Are expressed in dollars to the British Pound other currencies to the Dollar following Are Interbank rates that fluctuate and should be regarded As the approximate value of the . Dollar to foreign currencies. A a austrian Schilling a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a 11.09 Bahrain Dinar 0.3767 belgian franc British Pound 1.5435 Canadian Dollar 1.366 danish Krone. 6.2145 dutch Guilder. 1.767 French franc. 5.3945 German Mark. A a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a. 1.5757 greek drachma. 240.40 italian lira. 1,581.50 Kuwait Dinar. 0.2979 norwegian Krone .6.904 portuguese escudo. 160.65 saudi rial. 3.75 Spanish peseta. 130.71 Swiss franc 1.3241 turkish lira. 32,827.00 note figures Are expressed in dollars to the British Pound other currencies to the Dollar Gold quote $387.10 an ounce Silver quote $5.43 an ounce sources merchants National Bank amp Trust co. A and the associated press lingerie firm Hopes to do big business in sizes real wages found to fall despite economic upturn Washington a most american workers including professionals with College degrees have yet to see increases in their paychecks despite the improving Economy according to a study released saturday. Declining wages even among better educated workers and a growing income disparity Between those with and without College degrees Are becoming fixtures of the 1990s and the economic recovery said the study by the economic policy Institute an organization partially funded by labor groups. A on the one hand we re overcoming a lot of our Short term cyclical problems. We re getting Good Job growth and unemployment is falling a said Lawrence Mishel an economist and co author of the study. A now we re Down to the fundamental Long term problems that were present in the Economy in the 1980s. A a we re talking about the Middle class squeeze. We re talking about wages falling for a wide majority of  Mishel director of research for Epi said it was a no longer the Case even that College grads Are doing better than High school graduates in Terras of increasing their incomes faster than the rate of inflation. And there Are a a lot of employment and wage problems among White Collar men a he said. The study titled the state of working America 1994-95, said that from 1989 to 1993, median a a real wages after adjustment for inflation have fallen 2.6 percent Overall and 4.6 percent among men. During the same period wages for entry level workers with High school diplomas fell 7.8 percent while earnings for new workers with College degrees dropped 6.1  Mishel said inflation adjusted wages for College educated men have fallen every year since 1987. The study said also that new problems have emerged As Well. For instance it said the wages of male College educated workers fell As fast As those of men with High school diplomas nearly 5 percent from 1989 to �?T93. By the san Francisco examiner a Mother daughter team from Marin county promised customers big fun and envisioned big profits when they unveiled a Catalon offering Frederick a of Holly Wood style lingerie for neglected big a and really big a women. It seems there san unmet demand for French maid outfits skintight fishnet cat suits 5-Inch diameter sequined pasties with tassels a strings that play Here comes the Bride and other such items All in dress sizes 18 and up. Sally a place Catalon offers All these for women with measurements of at least 3931-41 and weights starting at about 180 pounds and the mail order operators say the occasional Cross dressing Man. Co owner Lisa Hoytt says she and her Mother Marcia Haber named the mail order business after the renowned Madam Sally Stanford. They spun the Catalon off from Haber sold Sausalito store of the same name which specialized in Petite sized clothing but had a popular rack of the big stuff. Many of the items must be custom made. For instance a moonlighting Las vegas showgirl makes feathered a strings by hand. The by utness is going after a bulging Market More than 30 million women Wear larger dress sizes those 14 and up according to Industry estimates. A there Are As Many size 18s As there Are 8s, but there a a thousand times More clothes available in size 8,�?� said Linda Arroz editor of Bow a fashion Magazine for a big Beautiful  a Between Hollywood and the big Apple America is big a Arroz said distributed to so Apps Howard news service a Handy kidney dialysis machine is being introduced by Baxter International inc. It is priced at about half the $20,000 to $35,000 per year that a traditional dialysis machine costs. Unit new York apr Baxter International inc. Is introducing a kidney dialysis machine that patients can tote around in a suitcase and Hook up to themselves for use while they sleep. The big medical equipment company is hoping its do it yourself Hom Choice system will persuade doctors to switch patients off traditional dialysis in which they must sit in a clinic for about four hours three times a week to have their blood cleaned of wastes. Hom Choice Isnit the first Home dialysis product a they have been around since 1978. The difference Baxter executives said is this one has computer technology that makes it portable and much simpler to use. It also costs about half the $20,000 to $35,000 per year for traditional dialysis because it does no to require doctors nurses and overhead costs of clinics the executives said. A essentially there Are three Steps to follow and they patients can set up the machine in five minutes a said Arthur Holden a vice president of marketing. Kidney specialists applauded the product saying it could make Home dialysis available to thousands of people. Of the roughly 600,000 dialysis patients in the world 85 percent still have it done in clinics. Hom Choice a seems to be an effective and valuable addition to what is available to patients a said or. Garabed Eknoyan a member of the Board of directors of the National kidney foundation. A it can do the Job and it works at night without  Hom Choice uses a relatively new form of dialysis called peritoneal dialysis. A sterile fluid that a mostly sugar water is pumped into the abdominal cavity via tubes. The peritoneal membrane which lines the cavity filters out wastes from the blood and transfers them to the fluid. After a period the fluid is pumped out with the wastes. Traditional Haemodialysis the kind available in clinics pumps the blood from the body to a machine that cleans it and pumps it Back in. Baxter which gets $1 billion of its $9 billion annual revenues from dialysis machines and chemicals pioneered Home peritoneal dialysis. However it Hasni to caught on because existing machines weigh about 200 pounds and Are cumbersome especially for older patients who often have circulatory or sight problems. Hom Choice is about the size of a videocassette recorder and weighs about 25 pounds. The Only potential drawback As with any peritoneal system is the risk of infections because of the tubes running Inland out of the body doctors said. A these infections Are generally not life threatening but they can be troublesome they often require hospitalization and they Lead to some scarring in peritoneal cavity a said or. Glenn Kershaw director of dialysis services at the University of Massachusetts medical Center in Worcester. If this happens the patient often must revert to traditional Haemodialysis. Machines will be leased to local doctors and most of Baxters profit will come from supplying the fluids and services said Tony White a Baxter executive vice president