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...school district, and each teacher has been fined two days' pay for every day on strike. The average loss: over $5,000. In effect, Levittown teachers will be working until the end of January without pay. Some have had to sell their houses, borrow to the limit, and bite into savings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Long Island: The Lost Season | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...bags which sap heat from cold bodies. They were defenseless, and worse, they were succumbing. I didn't think I could cross the stream alone even though it looked as though Adrian had. I wondered if I shouldn't set up the tent, get in the sleeping bag and bite through the plastic bag at my belt to get crackers and chocolate and try to save the two men along with myself. But how could I? I still couldn't use my fingers. And if we did manage to last, who would find...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Hell and High Water | 11/21/1978 | See Source »

...order won on a number of ballots. California, for instance, made more types of murder punishable by death, and Oregon reinstated capital punishment for premeditated murder. But perhaps the referendum with the most bite was in Oregon. There voters approved an attempt to cut dental bills by allowing the state to license anyone with six months' training to fit and sell false teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Taxes No, False Teeth Yes | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

Will the first great test of Jimmy Carter's anti-inflation guidelines be posed by candy bars? At his press conference last week, the President was asked if he would "put the bite on" Hershey Foods Corp. for raising the prices of its chocolate bars, peanut cups, candy kisses and other products an average of about 9%. Carter solemnly replied that if the increase did indeed exceed his standards, he would "disapprove it strongly. We do have some persuasion that we can exercise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Economy & Business, Nov. 20, 1978 | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

Whatever system eventually prevails, interest-bearing checking will spur another round of bank competition for new business and bite into bank profits. California's Bank of America, which is offering PATS at its 1,100 branches, reckons that the interest it will pay to PAT depositors will total $30 million annually and slice about 7.5% from earnings. Savings and loan association officials are also worried about this new round of competition for the savings dollar. Many are desperately hoping they will be allowed to offer checking-with-interest accounts of their own or other services that may help curb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: PATs vs. NOWs | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

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