European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 01, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes mine matters saturday a october 1,1994 today s rates following Are fixed rates a which Community banking and credit Union facilities will sell for eign currencies to . Personnel for personal use British Pound 1.62 dutch Guilder 1.69 f German Mark 1.51 note the rates above apply within the hos country. Figures Are expressed in dollars to the British Pound other currencies to the Dollar following Are Interbank rate that fluctuate and should Bete Garden As the approximate value of the . Dollar to foreign Curren cies austrian Schilling 10.888 Bahrain Dinar 0.3770 belgian franc. ,.,� 31.825 British Pound 1.5795 Canadian Dollar 1.3421 danish Krone 6.0742 dutch Guilder 1.7340 French franc 5.2810 German Mark 1.5479 greek drachma 236.19 italian lira 1,556.00 Kuwait Dinar 0.2970 norwegian Krone 6.7730 portuguese escudo 157.77 saudi rial 3.7508 Spanish peseta 128.25 Swiss franc 1.2857 turkish lira 34,065.00 note figures Are expressed in dollars to the British Pound other currencies to tha Dollar Gold quote $395.35 an ounce Silver quote $5,63 an ounce sources merchants National Bank & Trust co. And the associated press new York Exchange new York a of the 15 most Active thursday. Nit blockbuster Compaq scam add telex Adszwic Rontch Mede Ntim Rwjr Narfo Ramotor s Sains closing Price and net Chang new York Slock Exchange issues on volume 11,993,200 8,204,700 6.887,5004,769.800 3.713,7003,390,300 3.199,9002,424,300 2.306,2002,130,500 2,100,9002.088,800 2,074,200 1,949,300 1,937 600 lul27 v4 32h chg. To v4 18v4 v4 -1 181v a 62 it 35% 1v4 16v4 h 69 1m 27v vt2bv -2k 35w h60 a 28h Dow Jones new York a Dow Jones closing Range of aver Ages on thursday High Low Clou cringe 30 industrials 3892.64 3834.78 3854.63 -23.5520 transports 1510.68 1471.81 1483.54 -19.32 utilities 180.20. 177.5q 180.00 up 1.25 65 stocks " 1298.91 1275.13 1284.34 -8.41 overtime not the Wear for Many in . By Usa Genasci the associated press Phyllis Coleman a single Mother an Assembly line worker at pm s c6mplex in Flint mich., has put her son in counsel ing and just Learned her 18-year-old unmarried daughter is pregnant. Coleman children Are mad they never see her. I keep thinking that maybe if i d be enable to spend More time with them this would t have happened she said. But there s this constant pressure to be at Coleman and 11,500 other unionized workers at general motors corp. Have been on strike since tuesday in a dispute that illustrates a trend in the american workplace of late forced overtime. From automating to steel making to fast food business is booming and Bosse Sare demanding workers toil longer in Stead of hiring More help. Pm s workers rebelled saying the extra pay in t Worth the Price. It s happening to everyone. It s no just a Union concern said Mitchell Marks an Industrial and organizational psychologist who wrote the Book from turmoil to Triumph new life after a corporate downsizing overtime because in the Long run that s after years of shedding workers Many cheaper than hiring new people Tempo american companies Are reluctant to Ary or permanent hire even if the Economy appears to be v to be sure Many workers Welcome getting healthier overtime because it fatten their pay the proof can be seen in labor de �.", jul to apartment statistics which show a Small decrease in the unemployment rate but a Rise in the number of weekly hours worked. Ver the past decade the nation s largest companies eliminated 4,7 million physio land me Mai maladies jobs or one Quarter of their work Force a Ftp inducing three businesses. Satu Days a month for a pm s Case i As Cut the . And h he does to work Force by 52,000 jobs since 1991 m an e h his wife s fed and his i Effort to restore profitability at its North miss 6 him. He said in a Telephone inter american operations which were losing hour swell. Or. Arthur Rifkin a psychiatrist at Thelong Island jewish medical Center in new York said Long hours without recreation and rest can Worsen a Range of billions of dollars. Now the Market is Strong and the world s no. 1. Automaker can t build cars fast enough. Miss him e said in a Telephone inter View. Since june 1993 the workers at the Buick City Complex have worked an average of 57 hours a week including Many Many corporations have responded to saturdays. The United Auto workers surging demand for their products and Union contends that 8.7 percent of the services by hiring temporary workers. Strikers Are on sick leave with a Doc but others like pm Are asking pm Umen Ted ailment twice the level at employees to pick up the Slack paying them plants elsewhere. Sony trying its hand at magic with personal communicator unit ticketmaster backs disclosure of fees Washington a a ticket master corp. Executive told a House panel thursday that his company sup ports pending legislation to require full disclosure of service charges on tickets. We already practice the types of Dis closure that Are mandated by the Bill said Ned up Idstein vice president and general counsel of the nation s dominant ticket distributor. He said signs at retail outlets inform customers of the charges and Telephone sales operators Are instructed to Tell customers who order by phone. The legislation follows complaints by Consumers about High service charges on concert and other live entertainment tickets ticketmaster the 800-Pound Gorilla in the ticketing Industry and in Many places the Only Gorilla in town rips off Consumers Bill Wood of the . Public interest research group told the House Energy and com Pierce subcommittee. He said a Survey by his group of the company s service charges for tickets to80 events in 10 states showed that on average ticketmaster s fees added $5.10 tothe face value of the ticket. New York a the latest com Pany to make a futuristic computer for communications is Best known for tvs and stereos. Sony Corrie on wednesday began sell ing magic link a $1,000, one Pound de vice that catches email and paging Mes sages through the air and can Send messages through a Telephone line. It the first based on intuitive graphical software by general magic inc., the simplest yet for running a compute like de vice. Such hand held machines Are known inthe computer business by acronyms like pad for personal digital assistant orphic for personal information communicator. To previous versions have sold poorly. Companies like Apple computer inc., at to corp. And Tandy corp. Promised More than they delivered with the firs such machines last year. At Taban done its clipboard sized to device after Selling fewer than 10,000. The appearance of Sony in the Market is a sign that such devices will one Day before the masses. The company has in vested tens of millions of dollars in magic link. But for now executives plan to tar get it to corporations and Mobile work ers., ". A our projected break even Point in until several years from now said Carl Yankowski president of Sony electronics inc. We re going to be making More in vestments in it. It would be irresponsible for us to look for an immediate return in addition to being the first machine based on general magic s software it also is the first to work with the Persona link service created this year on at to s communications network the nation network and general magic soft Ware contain features that have become known As agents electronic secretaries that hold instructions for tasks such As automatically storing news received Froman on line computer service or beeping when a ticket Agency starts Selling sting tickets. One Small step Sony corp s magic link is the newest personal communicator on the Market. It s also the first product to incorporate software by general magic inc., which is targeting its intuitive programs toward a wide variety of devices that May be developed during the next decade. What the software can do on magic link now and whatsit May someday do to general magic Jago now communicator network Public ireline narrow band text and data future personal computer to Telephone video game Cash machine private wireless broadband capable of video electronic conferencing entertainment information retail sales and services source general magic a wide variety of companies Are devel Oping such uses for magic link. Bot America online and Compuserve two Large on line companies announce products that will soon work on the de vice. Intuit inc., maker of the popular quicken personal finance software has created a version for magic link that can work with those used on personal computers. the device s introduction is most exciting to general magic a Small Silicon Valley company where programme shave spent four years creating its magic Cap and Tel script programs. But magic link represents just one de -. 7-r aps a. Of. Vice and at least initially a limited Scop of uses for general magic software. The company Hopes to have products for per Sonal computers by next Spring and other electronic devices in the future. In addition to at to and Sony Gener Al magic has aligned itself with Apple Matsushita electric corp., Motorola inc., Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Philips consumer electronics co. Motorola has introduced a general magic based handheld communications device dubbed envoy but in t expected to sell it until late this year or Early next year. The company is ironing out a wire less transmission feature that will distinguish envoy from magic link. B
