|
Moscow awakens to sticker shock
|
MOSCOW -- Nina Akimova stood and wept outside her neighborhood
bread store yesterday morning. She clutched a precious loaf of
bread in a nylon bag.
Like others who had just witnessed the store's 200-percent price
increases, the 69-year-old retired sales clerk had one thing on her
mind: how she would feed her family.
"With bread prices so high, how can we live?" she said.
Muscovites awoke yesterday to price increases on goods ranging
from children's tights to cookin...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
|
CDC STUDY CONFIRMS THAT CIGARETTE PRICE INCREASES REDUCE SMOKING
Regulatory Intelligence Data
; 00-00-0000 A new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that lower-income, minority, and younger populations are more likely than other groups to quit or cut down on their smoking in response to cigarette price increases, resulting in considerable health benefits.
|
|
|
POLISH PRICE INCREASES BRING WALESA WARNING OF PROTESTS BY WORKERS
The Boston Globe
; ... and butter rose by an average of 9.6 percent, gasoline by 25 percent, and cigarettes and alcohol by 20 percent, the official news agency, PAP, said. "We are sitting on a powder keg," Walesa, the winner of the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize, said by telephone from ...
|
|
Coping with raw materials costs. (home furnishings manufacturers contend with price increases)(includes related article on silicon chips)
HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network
; Like it or not, manufacturers and retailers must cope with rising raw material costs, which are translating to increase prices. Manufacturers in nearly every home furnishings category have experienced significant increases in the price of raw materials. Manufacturers have adapted various strategies
|
|
Raw material price increases.(global news)
Ink Maker
; Degussa Increases Prices Across Entire Range of High-Performance Polymers and Monomers The High Performance Polymers (HP) Business Unit of Degussa GmbH, has announced price increases for its Vestamid, Vestosint, Vestamelt, Trogamid and Vest-enamer product lines. Product prices will increase by 8%
|
|
TRANE ANNOUNCES PRICE INCREASES.(Brief Article)
Contracting Business
; The Trane Company has announced price increases of 3 to 10% on heating/cooling coils, selected variable air volume units, and controls. The price increases are effective immediately.
|
|
Raw tape materials' costs up as industry braces for price increases. (audio and video tape)
Tape-Disc Business
; Relatively dramatic and cumulative increases in the costs of audio and video tape raw materials are pushing duplication tape manufacturers to the brink of their first price increases in close to ten years. Cobalt metal suppliers have raised their prices an average of 67 percent in 1994; polyester
|
|
|
MOST SUPPLIERS SET TO ABSORB RAW MATERIAL PRICE INCREASES.
HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network
; NEW YORK-Only a couple of the rug companies showing at the New York textiles market have raised their prices, but with raw material price increases eating into their margins, other companies said they were definitely feeling squeezed. Most suppliers said they had no choice; they could not pass
|
|
Waiting for the price increases. (capital equipment) (News)
Purchasing
; ... increases. Few leadtime changes or delivery problems reported. Southwest. Lumber prices and leadtimes continue to dominate purchasing news in this area. One buyer reports imported lumber prices rising from $1435 to $1700 per truckload in a single month. Domestic lumber ...
|
|
Poles Strike Against Economic Reforms; Price Increases, Proposed Budget Cuts Anger Public Suffering From Unemployment
The Washington Post
; When Poland's new government was installed last month, President Lech Walesa, noting the huge economic and political problems that lay ahead, predicted that Poland this year would "change prime ministers like car bumpers." Last week, that colorful prediction took on a harder edge as energy price
|
|
Trane Announces Price Increases for Chillers.(heating, ventilation, air conditioning and building management equipment price increases)(Company Business and Marketing)(Product Information)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Ozone Depletion Network Online Today
; The Trane Company, a worldwide manufacturer and supplier of heating, ventilation, air conditioning and building management equipment and systems, recently announced price increases on several of its products. Trane will increase the prices on centrifugal chillers, air and water-cooled screw
|