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...system has worked remarkably well over the years. Though inflation has pushed up overall consumer prices in the U.S. by nearly 130% in the past ten years, the cost of local telephone service has risen by only 51.7%. In fact, the price of a local call from a phone booth in many parts of the country is still the same as it has been for years...
...many deaths and dislocations among the population, and they risked being boycotted by voters who fear being murdered if their name appears on a list having anything to do with politics. Under the new system, a voter can present his government-issued ID card at any voting booth in his home province, get his finger marked with indelible ink, and vote. Bustamante insisted that a voter could not remove the ink and vote more than once "unless he amputates a finger, and if he does, I'll be delighted to let him vote two times, even ten." The major...
...hold costs down, the company tried to sell its products without salesmen. At the Atlanta booksellers' convention in May, the company set up a booth and promptly turned away a passer-by in blue jeans, believing that she was just looking for free samples. The woman was actually a buyer for Waldenbooks, the nation's largest book-retailing outfit. Adding to the firm's problems, interest rates shot up, pushing the company's loan rate to 23% and driving the cost of interest to an out-of-the-universe $11,500 per month...
...icemen are still recovering from Saturday night's trip home from Orono. The team bus left the arena at 11 p.m. and cruised at a snow-encumbered but steady pace until grinding to a halt with a broken clutch at a toll booth near the New Hampshire border. The blizzard delayed the arrival of another bus and attempts to revive the vehicle were unsuccessful, so everyone sat there for four hours and watched the snow fall. Finally, at 6 a.m., a new bus showed up and the squad...
...kickoff time, 75,000 individuals will jam the huge Bowl for the first "formal" New Haven Harvard-Yale Game since before the War. Together with their colored feathers and old fur coats, they bring traditions and memories of Mahan and Heffelfinger, Booth and Wood, Frank and Struck--great names of ten or thirty years ago. But more than that, they come anxious to bask in the spirit and participate in the festivities of the occasion; to join with the two teams in writing a new chapter in the unique legend of this...