Word: brandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every Sunday beginning at 7 a.m., a procession of cars, ranging from almost brand-new models to well-traveled klunkers, wheels up to a parking lot in the Okecie district of Warsaw. Often the line outside the 150-car lot stretches for more than a mile. But it is worth waiting for a spot because, after paying a fee of $1.33, the drivers go into the used-car business. Most of the car owners are already government-sanctioned smalltime capitalists-garage proprietors, auto mechanics, private doctors-with a well-cultivated taste for profit...
...cost of brown gold hovering above $4 per Ib. and sales beginning to fall off, producers are hustling a variety of substitutes, additives and extenders to take the sting out of coffee prices. General Foods, the biggest U.S. coffee roaster (Maxwell House, Yuban, Sanka) is test marketing a new brand, called Mellow Roast, that is a combination of coffee and other ingredients -46% wheat, bran and molasses in the instant. Mellow Roast ads not only stress low price (about $2.90 for 8 oz. of instant) but also maintain that the additives yield "a delicious coffee taste without the bitterness...
...worry, Mom. It's a brand-new Army and it's great. Well, I gotta stop now. I got KP tonight...
Though it is gloomier than some previous reports, the conclusion is not brand new. What makes it weighty is its global authorship. The report ("Energy: Global Prospects 1985-2000") is the product of a 2½-year study by the Workshop on Alternative Energy Strategies, a group organized by MIT Professor Carroll Wilson. He assembled 35 industrial, government and academic experts from twelve oil-importing nations and three exporters: Iran, Mexico and Venezuela. They plotted likely oil demand and supply under a wide range of assumptions: high and low rates of economic growth, "vigorous" and "restrained" government conservation policies...
Dickey Betts & Great Southern (Arista). The Allman Brothers Band may have broken up, mostly over the drug and marital problems of Lead Vocalist Gregg Allman, but its brand of bluesy Southern rock lives on with Betts & Co. Betts, whose song writing and soaring guitar solos helped gun the Allman band's engine, keeps his foot to the floor with his new group's debut album. The music moves from hard shakers like Run Gypsy Run to tender love songs like Bougainvillea...