Word: buying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prowling supermarkets for off-brand items. Says she: "When I was a kid, a candy bar was a real treat. What makes my kids' mouths water now is a salad. Fruits and vegetables have become a luxury." Though shoppers everywhere are becoming much more discriminating in what they buy, many arrive at the check-out counter with glazed, catatonic expressions on their faces. Says San Francisco Housewife Vera Trinkaus: "What bothers me the most is that the prices on items jump not just a few pennies but 20¢ or more at a time. I can't figure it out. There...
American executives are becoming increasingly interested in things money cannot buy, notably a stable home life, a safe environment, a wholesome community, sun, fun and culture. For example, Mark Burns, 42, a fast-rising IBM executive in Chicago, turned down three transfers in order to raise his three children in one place. But Burns is aware that his refusals limited his possibilities at IBM, whose initials, many employees joke, stand for I've Been Moved. Hence, Burns came to the conclusion he must switch careers and now is president of a small bank on Chicago's South Side...
...Bros. Kuhn Loeb, points out that LDCs already receive more than one-third of U.S. exports, including more than 40% of foreign sales of commercial aircraft and electrical machinery. Even the industrializing LDCs that are competing effectively with Northern factories in such products as clothing and shoes, he asserts, buy more from the rich nations than they sell to them. He endorses much more aid to LDCs because he considers them to be potentially "important engines of less inflationary growth for the developed countries...
...industrial countries should also join with the poor lands in agreements to stabilize the prices of raw materials such as copper, coffee, tin, bauxite and manganese. Partners in these agreements would set up common funds to buy and stockpile commodities when prices plunge, sell off the stocks when shortages send prices soaring...
...estate, he talked to graduate students living in Peabody Terrace, who recounted horrors about the cockroaches, the garbage and heating systems in that housing facility. A number of deans also had something to say about real estate; there wasn't enough of it for Harvard professors to rent, or buy, in Cambridge. The situation in the early '70s was ironic. Harvard could barely find enough residents to occupy Peabody Terrace, but at the same time, there were many people who wanted to live in Cambridge, but could not find the space. Adding to the problem's complexity is the fact...