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20 — MANCHESTER HERALD, Saturday, April 16, 1983 BUSINESS 'alnut S t house East Catholic jSeivage bonding In U.S. contest wins slugfest cost: $8.4m In Brief- HIGHEST STATE JOBLESS Employee health care page 11 ... page 14 ... page 3 RATES FOR FEBRUARY/ Engineers to meet pressuring business NASHUA, N.H. — Plant engineers from across • the country will meet in New Hampshire next week for a two-day conference sponsored by the Granite State Chapter of the American Institute By LeRov Pope managements were reported getting of Plant Engineers. United Press International tougher in opposing restrictive union Michigan 16.5% The conference on April 21 and 22 will feature policies and work rules, for example. < Snow likely tonight Manchester, Conn. seminars on preventative maintenance, lighting NEW YORK - All over the indus One solution would appear to be to Pennsylvania 14.1% and Tuesday controls, programmable computers, roofing trialized world business firms are raise the retirement age, but this has Monday, Aprii 18, 1983 systems and applications and industrial use of seeking ways to contain skyrocketing not gotten far in Europe. On the — See page 2 Single copy: 25<i: infrared equipment. health costs for workers. contrary, people at the seminar said, Gov. John Sununti will address the group at its That means, among other things, the politicians seek to lower the that unions not only will have a harder retirement age in order to replace older V iManrhffitrr Hrralb opening lunch. Forty companies will show goods and services on both days of the conference. time winning additional benefits for workers with younger people and thus W. Virginia 21% workers but may face pressure to tnit reduce statistical unemployment—but back on those they have. this increases the social security Contract awarded The fear on the part of management burden, which was studied in the Alabama 16.1% is that, unless costs are contained, they seminar along with health care. Ethiopian Airlines has selected JT9D-7R4 will become unbearable and health In the United States, rising health engines, produced by Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, to plans will break down. care costs can be blamed to some power the international carrier's new fleet of Milliman & Robertson, Inc., of extent on poor communication about Bomb rips U.S. Embassy in Beirut Boeing 767ER jetliners. Seattle, one of the country's largest the matter between employers and Ethiopian is the first African airline to order the * Highest employee benefit consultants, says U. workers, said Johnson & Higgins of S i new generation twinjet. The carrier, which By Jack Redden lay in .the middle of the street — so destroyer, with its formidable S. health care costs hit $286.6 billion or New York, another large employee recorded state the back of the seventh floor. "It previously had announced orders fortwo767ERs blackened most people ran by array of firepower, remained off 9.8 percent of the Gross National benefit consulting firm. J&H Vice United Press International was bad that it happened at and two options, selected the JT9D-7R4E engine unemployment rate ever without noticing. A Lebanese Red Product in 1981, up from 5.3 percent in President Dennis McKoy said many lunchtime.” shore from the embassy. which develops 50,000 pounds of takeoff thrust. Cross worker placed a blanket The attack came minutes after I960. But Milliman Si Robertson said for American companies are too niggardly UPI graphic BEIRUT, Lebanon — A bomb The bomb went off shortly after 1 Ethiopian is the 11th airline to select P&WA's over the remains. some American companies the in in spending money on this type of blew apart the U.S. Embassy p.m. either just in front of the U.S. Marine commander Col. J19D-7R4. Other carriers are Air Canada, Alaska A Lebanese military officer, creases have been running at 20 to 25 communication. ^ The Labor Department reported this week,that 30 states had today and reinforced concrete mission or just inside the front James Mead warned that a Mos s' s? International, AVIANCA, Braathens, China percent a year. unemployment rates of 10 percent or higher in February. The floors collapsed on employees, door. Some reports said the stumbling out of the wreckage, lem Shiite faction was believed Airlines of Taiwan, El Al, Pacific Western, TWA, The result is the workers don't rate in West Virginia stood at 21 percent, the highest for any killing at least 28 people, including explosion was caused by a car screamed uncontrollably at what responsible for recent attacks on United, and Western. Together, these airlines William Mercer, Inc., a New York understand the seriousness of health sbe U.S. Marines, hospital officials bomb. he had seen inside. Ten ambulan Marines, including a shooting have 160 767s on firm order and option. consulting firm in the field, made a care costs and don't see why they state since the government began recording statistics by state in said. The highway outside the building ces sped off with casualties. incident Sunday night. survey last fall and got 1,400 responses should cooperate in reducing them. the late 1960s. A doctor at the American Uni was jammed with midday traffic. Survivors on the top floor of the “ The current theory is now that predicting an 18 percent average jump versity Hospital said another 100 Ambassador Robert Dillon was burning building were calling for we are looking at the Amal group, Lemek gets contract in worker health costs this year. people were injured by the blast. in the bulding at the time, but was help and lowering attache cases of and a certain subset of it that is Mercer said that's four times the rate The 28 dead included two Lebanese reported to be “all right” by vital papers to Marines who rushed hlgly pro-Iranian," Mead said, The Manchester Bicentennial Bandshell Corp. of inflation at the time of the survey. policemen in addition to the six political officer Ryan Crocker, to the scene. basing it on “ some pretty decent has awarded a $5,000 contract to Lemek ‘Database’ industry is growing marines, the doctor said. who stood on the wreckage-strewn Relatives of U.S. Embassy em intelligence.” Landscape Contracting Corp. of Tolland to Mercer International recently held a* A group calling itself the Islamic sidewalk directing Marines. ployees — most of them Lebanese He said the group wants “ eve landscape the grounds on the Manchester symposium in New York for U.S.-based Struggle Organization called a U.S. envoys Philip Habib and — collapsed on the glass-covered rybody out of Lebanon — all Community College Campus occupied by the multinationals on health care costs in By Gary Klott communication devices such as per for a scant one percent of the database local news organization imme Morris Draper, in Beirut for troop sidewalks when they saw the foreigners — so that would be a Bicentennial Bandshell. Europe! Those attending reported a United Press International sonal computers and word processors business. diately after the blast to claim withdrawal talks between Israel wreckage. Black smoke billowed most likely candidate.” The $5,000 contract calls for the work to be more critical rise across the Atlantic — primarily in business but in the home As personal computers proliferate, responsibility. The same group and Lebanon, were not at the from the fires on the ground floor The Amal group is the militia of completed no later than May 15, 1983. In addition than in the United States. Between 1970 NEW YORK - Electronic informa as well — and the growth in the number two-way consumer services are pro previously claimed responsibility embassy and were safe, a White and the charred cars around the the Shiites and had been mentioned to screening the access road to the bandshell from and 1979, health care costs In European tion banks became a $1 billion business of users, from specialist users to more jected to grow at a rate of over 76 for two grenade attacks that House spokesman said. building. privately in the past as a likely spectators, the landscaping contrct calls for countries jumped from 9.5 to 12.6 last year as a growing number of casual users.” percent a year. But even at that rate, wounded five U.S. Marines on Almost 100 Marines, rushed into source of the attacks on the installing flowering shrubs and ornamental trees. percent of most countries' GNP on the businessmen and consumers let their The database boom is no surprise, the consumer market still would “ The hospital is a disaster area. March 16. the area from their base in the Marines. average and the increase has acceler fingers do the walking on computer considering the advantages of being account for only 6 percent of industry Casualties are being brought in The explosion blew off the entire south of Beirut, formed a ring Mead said he did not know if the ated since. keyboards to retrieve facts and data able to tap into huge reservoirs of revenues in 1987. every minute," UPI free-lance from vast electronic "libraries." up-to-date information. By far the biggest segment of the front of the building, toppled the photographer Pierre Sabbagh said around the smoking ruins of the same group was responsible for UPl chairman quits Those attending the seminar said database industry is business informa embassy's main pillars and sent from American University embassy. the series of attacks on the Italian because government efforts to contain As more and more personal compu Hooking up to a database requires no tion, commanding a near 77 percent concrete floors crashing down on Hospital. French peace-keepers and Leba and French peace-keepers, but he NEW YORK — United Press International costs had met with little success, they ters make their way into the office and more than a personal computer and a share.