Word: bags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John P. Boles and Berryman each bag...
...news greeted the nation's sugar lovers last week. The palatable side: after 20 months of dizzying, nonstop rises (TIME, Dec. 9), wholesale sugar prices dipped slightly. Major refiners, including Amstar Corp., the nation's biggest producer, and SuCrest Corp., pared the cost of a 5-lb. bag of sugar by 25?, to $3.48. The sour news is that despite these reductions, supermarket prices are likely to continue rising for weeks before they decline or even stabilize, because the recent rapid series of wholesale boosts-seven in the five weeks prior to last week-have not yet come...
...rate of $3 billion. "The $10 billion will crush us," warned former Minister of Mines and OPEC Founder Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo. "We have a President with a moun tain of gold to dispense. Everyone will be thinking how to put his hand in the bag...
...says simply that "she was taken to Boston Commons," a scrap of information of dubious significance, but you can think on it while you look. A shrewd glance reveals the wrinkles pleated into a brown paper sack which might have given harried passersby the chance to mutter "the old bag" as they bustled through the park...
Unfortunately, the army's sleeping bag, although favored by the same guys who cavorted in shorts during the blizzard of '88, can match up to those expensive down models. But if your stint in the mountains is a short one the renting fees should not be too debilitating. The same thing can apply for tents, foam pads, or any other out-of-your-price-range items...