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Consumer resistance shows up most sharply in home furnishings and appliances. "We went to four different places before we finally bought a color TV set," says Norma Piel, a Pittsburgh housewife, "and I'm sure that we saved at least $100." Apparel sales are strong almost everywhere, but stores in Los Angeles and St. Louis report a declining demand for shoes, partly because the new styles, which many people consider ugly, have not really caught on. The fur industry is having its shabbiest year in decades; women are not buying as many minks and Persian lambs as in recent...
...Almost $3 billion in bonds that would have financed public construction-including a new school for Hondo and a modern hospital for Iron County-have proved totally unmarketable. Probably a much greater total of bonds has not been scheduled for sale because local officials fear that they would find no buyers. Michigan voters, for example, last year approved two issues totaling $435 million to finance antipollution and park-building programs, but state authorities have never tried to set a date for investment-banking houses to bid on them. They have reason for their timidity. About half of the investment-banking...
...factor affecting the size of the market-and the fares-will be the selling price of the SST, now calculated at $40 million a plane. The price of developing new airplanes has an unsettlingly steep rate of climb. The Concorde's development costs so far have almost quadrupled to $1.72 billion, and the price tag has risen from $ 12 million a plane to $21 million...
County, Fla., and fears of flooding in Clinton Township, Mich., because not enough storm sewers are being built. State and local governments spend roughly $26 billion a year to build schools, hospitals, roads, sewers, airports and the like, and last year they raised almost $11 billion of the sum by selling bonds. So far this year their bond sales are running 26% below that pace...
...Waterfall, Miss Drabble's self-victimizing heroine is the well-inhibited product of a "faintly clerical background." Jane Gray finds life's natural processes an overwhelming ordeal. Marriage is a great unease. Pregnancy is "almost unendurably frightening...