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...whole in the past year. Rice is up 90%, sugar 132%, bread 27% and milk 20%. The aged on fixed incomes are often devastated. "I walk into the supermarket, pick up a few oranges and lemons-and then count my money to see if I have enough," says Leah Binder, a 72-year-old Los Angeles widow...
...Black Binders. The sober spirit of the hearings was embodied in two thick black binders placed on each of the 38 committee members' desks. One was an annotated index of the documentary or taped evidence accumulated by the committee staff in the six months that it has probed 41 allegations of wrongdoing-including obstruction of justice and complicity in the Watergate cover-up?by Nixon. The other binder held the material that Majority Counsel John Dear's staff presented to the committee during its first three-hour session. It amounted to a recitation of the events that...
Cambridge literati tend to forget that selling used books is basically just another business. There are plenty of things to remind them: the way all the books in Pangloss are catalogued in one binder for easy reference, for instance. Or the way Harvard Book Store absolutely and unflinchingly charges half the original price for all of its used paperbacks. But give them a place like the Starr Book Shop with its crazy castle exterior and its piles and shelves of musty, dust-covered, unalphabetized books, and their romanticism goes wild. Visions of Bloomsbury circles and artistic Jamesian bookbinders flit through...
...anchor it, the ad advises, for erosion control. Or use it as a compost-pit liner: "It is good to have woody material like newsprint decomposing in your soil." Moreover, says the Star, "newsprint ink is like dessert. The ink contains valuable trace minerals in the seaweed-derived binder...
...unnecessary thing I've ever said." Indeed, Shriver's ebullient optimism is one of the more promising commodities of the McGovern campaign. "It's terrific," Shriver kept saying, "I'm learning a graydeal [a favorite word]. Here, look at my issues book [thick loose-leaf binder]; it's as good as any master's course." In a swing that spotted the nation from Portland, Me., and Charleston, W. Va., to Grand Rapids and the West Coast, Shriver's routine never varied: he would come down the ramp of his chartered 727 wearing facial...