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...Jewel-Osco, but no more. "They're too expensive," Chernova says, lengthy shopping list in hand. Now she visits Aldi once a week, drawn by the no-frills chain's $2.69 gallon jugs of milk (compared with $3.99 for a gallon of Dean whole milk at Jewel-Osco) and 33?? boxes of salt (compared with 79¢ for a similarly sized box of Morton's). "I've got to save my pennies," she says, heading into the store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ultra-Lean Grocer | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

Beth Wilson, a stay-at-home mom in Hobart, Ind., 35 miles southeast of Chicago, is still seething over last winter's bills from Northern Indiana Public Service Co., known as NIPSCO. In March 2002, Wilson paid the utility 33?? a heating unit for the family's two-bedroom home. By March of this year, the price had shot up to 86¢, an increase of 161%. If the price of new cars had risen at the same pace, a midrange Ford Taurus would sell for $54,000 today. Says Wilson: "I never turn my heat up past 68. I didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. is Running Out of Energy. | 7/21/2003 | See Source »

LIFE, metaphysicians of the record industry will tell you, is a super-monster smash; dig it. It is performed in an illogical world that is both flat and round, where 33??? r.p.m. exerts a fearful centrifugal force. The U.S., particularly that extensive tribe of its citizenry under 30, is electronically in thrall to the thrumming, incessant sound of music, a phenomenon that has handed the record business a supremely marketable mania. Every week, hundreds of records are poured into radio stations by promoters trying to crack the crucial list of Top 40 hits that get saturation air play. Every year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Records: Moguls, Money & Monsters | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

Gifts & Inheritance. Under the House bill a rich man would do better to give his estate to his heirs before his death than to bequeath it to them afterwards. The gift tax climbs to 33??% on $10,000,000 or more. The estate tax runs up to 45% on the same amount. The parent who deeds his children $10,000,000 makes them pay the U. S. $2,312,125 as a gift tax, whereas the same man's heirs would have to pay an estate tax of $3,116,000. From these two tax increases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: House Jugglers | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...next day was one of wild dropping of stock around the trading posts. A group of 25 railroad stocks declined on the average 33?? a share; a group of 25 industrial stocks declined on the average $2.19 a share. And when all was done the brokers counted 3,384,980 shares handled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Stock Market | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

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