Word: buying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...serious talk about why alienation appears to decrease where one can rely on the third-party intervenor, i.e., why Action Lines are so popular. "Poor people have services provided," theorized Rita Levine of WELI'S Call for Action in Hamden, Conn. "Rich people can buy them. People in the middle get squeezed. They feel impotent in the corporate marketplace. They complain, get rebuffed and figure, Why bother? Well, we bother for them...
Some of the war stories that wafted on the early-autumn Corning air were painfully autobiographical. Marilyn Bereson of public TV's Consumer Survival Kit had so much trouble with her car that she declared publicly at another consumer conference that she would never again buy a General Motors product. A GM executive from Detroit called soon after to solve her problem. And there is the case of Esther Peterson, the nation's highest-ranking consumer-affairs official. An unfunny thing happened to her on the way to the Action Line Conference. She showed up at the Commuter...
Because they flood the U.S. with everything from Sony TVs to nimble Kawasaki cycles and buy so little in return, the Japanese alone account for 40% of the nation's appalling trade deficit, which this year will rocket to a record $33 billion. In response to repeated American pleas for easier access to markets in the land of Hitachi and Datsun, the Japanese reply reproachfully: "But we are ready and eager to buy your goods. It is your fault for making no effort to sell to us." Last week a group of 100 U.S. businessmen, headed by Texas Instruments...
...after the first week, most of the visiting Americans were discouraged. Declared Warren Lind, a DuPont executive: "At the top, the Japanese seem committed to opening their market. But when the fellow down the line actually makes the decision, the tendency is still to 'buy national...
...Lynds picked up similar signs of cultural schizophrenia in 1920s Muncie: an antidivorce town with a rate of 42 divorces for every 100 marriages, a thrifty pay-as-you-go culture rushing to buy on credit, and a resentment of federal intervention that went hand in hand with a scramble for the federal dollar...