Word: buying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pond with the regulation absurd Old Faithful-type fountain. Just inside the town limits, two new buildings vie in raw gracelessness, both souvenir shops. The rival tour wagons jostle Winnebagos, in flight from the snows of Nebraska, Montana, Minnesota, Illinois and hovering here at the dozen chances to buy a now amplified selection of interchangeable junk mementos - the grinning peanut in still more awful avatars, Billy T shirts, yardsticks, local cookbooks (revealing how deeply the taste-destroying shortcut has driven in its charge south). Carter family members who have stayed on move more carefully now, cautious of the speed with...
...railroads more freedom to set rates; railmen are for it. Interestingly, O'Neal doubts that rail deregulation will do much good. He fears that it would be used to hike rates, not cut them, and considers trucking deregulation more important. Since trucks haul just about everything that Americans buy or sell, he is probably right...
...restored, and if voluntary measures have not cut consumption, then mandatory allocation will be brought in on a trial basis If stocks are still not being rebuilt, rationing would be imposed. Each car owner would be sent ration checks every three months specifying the number of gallons he could buy. The checks could be turned in at banks or other financial institutions in return for coupons that would have to be handed over at gas stations. The coupons might also be sold openly for whatever someone is willing to pay for them thus allowing drivers to get extra gasoline without...
...attempt to bum a quarter. "Just think--another quarter you won't have to own."). His preaching aside, people in these times still clamor to own just about everything they can possibly imagine. Cars, homes, Cuisinarts, video-cassette recorders--and if you can't afford it, then you simply buy it on credit, borrow money, get a loan, try our EZ Payment plan, Master Charge it, put it on the tab, Leo--anything. It seems the inevitable extension of the consumer age. The old Puritan Ethic might have built this place, but it's the old play-now, pay-whenever...
...market has quickened in the last several years (there were twice as many mergers and acquisitions in 1977 as in 1975), the Fortune 500 have gained even more power over pricing. These days, big corporations don't use their profits to increase their own productivity--they just buy someone else...