Word: better
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point of view, it may be just as well that the court chose to duck the Farber case, given the cold shoulder that the Justices have turned toward press claims of special privilege in recent decisions. "When journalists rely on the First Amendment in these cases, they'd better face the fact they're not going to get much help from the Supreme Court," says Columbia Law Professor Benno Schmidt. One reporter who agrees is Farber, who is finishing a book on the case. Says he: "I wasn't surprised. I became accustomed to hearing bad things...
...available until early 1980 for whites and early 1981 for reds. They will be scarce, but wines from Beaujolais and the Côtes du Rhône, Burgundy's neighbors to the south, have enjoyed abundant harvests. As a result, the 1978 nouveaux are not only better than last year's but often cheaper." And there is good news from Bordeaux, which also had an excellent year. Growers there expect a price rise of only 4% for reds and 10% for whites, which will make Bordeaux a good value compared with those rarefied Burgundies...
Fortunately, Kahn gets on well with most other economic policymakers, notably Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and Chief Economic Adviser Charles Schultze. Just about everybody in Washington agrees that Kahn is talented, if a bit of a ham, but that he needs to direct himself better. Kahn concurs: "I'm getting pretty sick of talking about all the things I'm going to do. I want to devote more time to the substance of this...
...department-store cosmetics counters are jammed and the air redolent of thousands of mixed scents as women spray themselves with a bit of this and a touch of that. Men's eyes are often struck by the sight of a woman daubing lipstick onto her hand to get a better idea of the shade?and leaving five or six stripes of what looks like war paint...
...extra shine; prestige perfumes have more natural essential oils and fewer synthetic ones than cheaper scents. But Francis Le Cates Jr., a cosmetics analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, estimates that on average only 80 of the cosmetics sales dollar goes to pay for ingredients. The extra cost of the better ones used in prestige products comes nowhere near accounting for the difference in selling price. The real difference is in fancier packaging, splashier promotion, and the fact that the swankier cosmetics are made in limited quantity for sale through prestige stores, which raises the manufacturing cost per unit...