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Alternatively, the state manufactures both high-and low-priced versions of, say, furniture. But, in the old bait-and-switch technique, the cheaper items are often not available. The price of basic bread in Poland has remained officially unchanged for 15 years at 6? per lb.; but newer-style and more popular breads of higher quality that contain honey or bran and cost up to three times as much are also frequently unavailable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: How Communists Beat Inflation | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

Even the 'Throp's use of the rare "free-kick rule" didn't help Stevens and co. Under the rule, any fair catch may be followed by a free kick, in this case an unsuccessful field goal attempt. "I haven't seen that rule invoked in 18 years," Referee Bait Newman said...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Eliot, Mather Yale-Bound | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

Edward O. Wilson, Baird Professor of Science, readily acknowledges that his scientific colleagues at Harvard will seldom leap at the chance of teaching an elementary science course. Even the bait of a high status Core course is not enough to lure them to face the ignorant masses. But Wilson doesn't feel that way. He presents himself as "one of a minority" among the professors in his department who has supported the Core from the beginning...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Professors Flesh Out the Core | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

Marine biologists point out that lobsters are already being dangerously overfished. Off New England, lobster "pots" -the bait-loaded wooden traps used to snare the creatures-are so densely packed on the ocean floor that a lobster can barely move without bumping into one. Farther offshore, foreign fishermen have been using more sophisticated dredges to scoop up lobsters. In all too many cases, young females are removed before they have had a chance to reproduce; often they are taken under the typical state legal limit of 3 3/16 in. from eye socket to the beginning of the tail, a restraint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lobster Bodega | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

Themes include love, baseball, pre-Newtonian physics. "Insults," one fellow emphasizes, "are not unheard of." The younger fellows, in gaudy shirts, baggy sweaters and crepe-soled shoes, happily bait their seniors, most of them in suits and ties. A department head cannot pull rank here. "There's no power to be gained or lost," Krieger points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In North Carolina: Corn Bread and Great Ideas | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

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