TAKE 4 OF 4 -- ECONOMIC ROUNDUP: HUNGARY 2-9 NOV

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• Publication Date: November 1, 1994
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SUBJ: TAKE 4 OF 4 -- ECONOMIC ROUNDUP: HUNGARY 2-9 NOV
REF: AU1.110105394 ECONOMIC ROUNDUP: HUNGARY 2-9 NOV///9 NOV 94)
AVERAGE GROSS WAGE HAS STAGNATED SINCE JUNE: THE AVERAGE GROSS
WAGE IN SEPTEMBER WAS HUF33,998, PRACTICALLY THE SAME AS IN AUGUST,
CENTRAL STATISTICAL OFFICE (KSH) FIGURES SHOW. THE AVERAGE GROSS
WAGE HAS STAGNATED SINCE JUNE. THE AVERAGE GROSS WAGE IN SEPTEMBER
WAS 22.9 PERCENT HIGHER THAN THE SAME MONTH LAST YEAR. NET WAGES
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AMOUNTED TO HUF23.352, 25.6 PERCENT UP ON THE FIGURE OF LAST
SEPTEMBER. THE AVERAGE GROSS MONTHLY WAGE IN THE JANUARY-SEPTEMBER
PERIOD WAS HUF31.715 WITH NET WAGES AT HUF22.081. GROSS WAGES ROSE
BY 22.3 PERCENT AND NET WAGES BY 25 PERCENT AS COMPARED TO THE SAME
PERIOD OF LAST YEAR. AS TIIE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX ROSE BY ONLY 1.8.2
PERCENT DURING THE JANUARY-SEPTEMBER PERIOD, REAL WAGES WERE 5.8
PERCENT UP AS COMPARED TO TIIE SAME PERIOD OF LAST YEAR. ALTHOUGH
TIIE TENDENCY FOR INCREASE IS THE SAME FOR THE WHOLE OF THIS YEAR,
THE RATE OF GROWTH DROPPED AS COMPARED TO THE 8.1 PERCENT REAL WAGE
INCREASE OF THE FIRST QUARTER OF THIS YEAR, KSH POINTS OUT. A
MANUAL WORKER'S GROSS MONTHLY WAGE WAS HUF24.656 IN TIIE FIRST NINE
MONTHS OF THIS YEAR, (A 21.1-PERCENT INCREASE ON TIIE SAME PERIOD OF
LAST YEAR), WHILE WHITE-COLLAR WORKERS EARNED A GROSS HUF47.316 (A
22.3-PERCENT INCREASE) A MONTH. (BUDAPEST MTI IN ENGLISH 1318 GMT 7
NOV 94)
UNEMPLOYMENT CONTINUES TO FALL IN OCTOBER: THE NUMBER OF
REGISTERED UNEMPLOYED FELL BY 16,200 TO 529,600 IN OCTOBER, LABOR
OFFICE FIGURES SHOW. THE JOBLESS RATE STOOD AT 10.6 PERCENT AT THE
END OF OCTOBER, FOLLOWING A DROP BY 0.1 PERCENT TO 10.9 PERCENT IN
SEPTEMBER. (BUDAPEST MTI IN ENGLISH 0802 GMT 9 NOV 94)
TOURISM SURPLUS $313.2 MILLION AT END OF AUGUST: THE TOURIST
INDUSTRY HAD A SURPLUS OF $313 MILLION AT THE END OF AUGUST -- NO
CHANGE FROM THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR., TOURIST REVENUE IN TIIE FIRST
EIGHT MONTHS AMOUNTED TO $906.5 MILLION, 17 PERCENT UP ON THE SAME
PERIOD LAST YEAR, WHILE EXPENSES TOTALLED $593.3 MILLION IN THE
FIRST EIGHT MONTHS OF THE YEAR -- AN INCREASE OF 28 PERCENT. AS A
RESULT, THE SURPLUS AMOUNTED TO $313.2, MILLION AT THE END OF AUGUST,
SLIGHTLY UP ON LAST YEAR'S FIGURE IN THE SAME PERIOD OF $312.4
MILLION. (BUDAPEST MTI IN.ENGLISH 1239 GMT 9 NOV 94)
NEW INVENTION: PERSONALBIOENERGY GAUGE: SALE OF WHAT PROMISES
TO BE A POTENTIALLY HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL HUNGARIAN INVENTION HAS BEGUN
IN HUNGARY. THE ITEM, A GAUGE MEASURING THE PERSONAL LEVEL OF
U NERDY. IS JUST BIG ENOUQ11 TO FTI,T. THE PALM OF ONE'S HAND AND IT
IS TIIE INVENTION OF ENGINEER D GYOR.I EGE Y. WITH THIS SMALL
SIZED APPARATUS ANYBODY CAN GAUGE HIS STATE OF HEALTH AND HIS OWN
LEVEL OF BIOENERGY THAT DETERMINES PERFORMANCE. TIIE MOST ESSENTIAL
COMPONENT OF THE UNIT IS A. WIIEEL TURNING ON EXTREMELY SENSITIVE
SPECIAL BALL BEARINGS WHICH, EVEN WITHOUT BEING TOUCHED,; CAN BE
MOVED BY MEANS OF PERSONAL _BIOEIIERQY . THIS SHOWS THE POWER OF
ENERGY. THE TURNING OF THE WHEEL (AND THROUGH THAT THE LEVEL OF OUR
BIOS ERGY) IS MEASURED AND DISPLAYED ON,THE FRONT OF THE INSTRUMENT
BY A SMALL COMPUTER. IT TOOK YEARS TO PRODUCE THE INSTRUMENT,
ALTHOUGH THE INVENTOR APPLIED FOR A PATENT ONLY IN 1989. THE
EQUIPMENT COSTS ABOUT HUF8,000 IN HUNGARY (ABOUT $70). DR. EGELY IS
A STAFF' MEMBER WITH THE PHYSICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE HUNG RTAN
ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, AND HIS SPHERE OF RESEARCH ENCOMPASSES
THUNDERBALL AND OTHER NATURAL PHENOMENA,;TELEPORTATION, AND THE
INHERENT POSSIBILITIES OF ENERGY TRANSFER. (BUDAPEST MTI IN ENGLISH
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