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...every sport or hobby the loved one may want to learn -from skiing to swimming, bronc busting to piano playing. Prudently, perhaps, the company does not offer courses in poetry, philosophy, painting or other such pastures to which it might be difficult to attach a price tag-or a buyer...
...many U.S. cities, local legislation is simply inadequate. Chicago law requires a resident to secure a city permit to buy a gun, and these permits are hard to come by. But in virtually every Chicago suburb, a gun buyer need present only an easily acquired $5 state form called a Firearm Owners Identification Card, as well as proof of identity. "What's the use in having a city law," asks Chicago's Deputy Police Superintendent John Killackey, "when you can walk 20 feet across the city limits and buy an arsenal...
...which is determined by the sellers. Thus they seem to be rejecting the play of free market forces in determining prices. In such a market, the price of a product is closely related to the cost of producing the last unit of supply that is demanded by a buyer. No one anywhere in the world is pumping oil that costs $10 a bbl. to 'produce.' The cost of bringing up a barrel ranges from 100 hi Saudi Arabia to 600 in Venezuela to $3 or so in the U.S. OPEC'S defenders seem to have the notion that somehow market...
...this, 43 per cent--or approximately $3 million--will be spent in purchasing. Weissbecker says that the buying of food by the purchasing division is done on an annual competitive bidding system. After contracts are made, two buyers go directly to the wholesale markets to inspect the products of the 130 vendors from which the department has agreed to buy. When the buyer give his stamp of approval, the food is delivered to the food service areas where it is prepared and served...
...emphasis on inflation and other domestic issues. Says Ian Smart, deputy director of Britain's prestigious Royal Institute of International Affairs: "The U.S. as the center of influence, the way in which its economy is run, the way in which it will conduct itself as a buyer and seller of resources, are of far more importance than the panoply of international negotiations and international relationships. [Ford's] best contribution abroad will be to establish that he has his domestic situation under control." That will be truest in Western Europe...