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...elegant restaurant (green salad, gigot d'agneau, Cabernet Sauvignon and chocolate charlotte) runs $40. More modest pocketbooks can find such café fare as a small quiche or an omelet at $2, a chef's salad at $3.55. A 14-block rush-hour cab ride comes to $2.25, sans...
...some places, power cables were downed, vehicles were stalled, and hundreds of motorists were stranded-including a wedding party marooned for eleven hours aboard a bus on Salisbury Plain. In Scotland, a taxi driver, trapped by snow, burned half a tank of gas just to keep his cab warm, while he waited for assistance. Five schoolboys out on an endurance test were rescued after two nights on storm-swept Dartmoor; a medium had told police where to look. Horse racing, cricket and soccer games were canceled, and the bloom totally vanished from the Harrogate spring flower show...
...wooing a sophisticated lady can break even a most happy fella. Take Broadway tickets. In 1953 it cost $7.20 for an orchestra seat to Cole Porter's musical Can-Can, starring Gwen Verdon. The 1981 revival (same show, same seat) costs $30 on a Saturday night. Taking a cab from Times Square to the elegant Plaza Hotel would have cost 60? in 1953, but today it is about $2.20, without traffic jams-or tip. Once at the Plaza, French pastries in the glow of the crystal hurricane lamps of the Palm Court come dear: $3.95 per gâteau...
...reneges on an agreement to buy honey from children. In the series Alice, the son of the program's star urges her to work somewhere else because of the low wages paid by Mel, owner of the diner where she works as a waitress. Shirley, a black former cab driver who was the wise and friendly heroine of One in a Million, inherited a conglomerate, but she was counterpointed against another executive who was pompous, stiff and stupid...
...growth for higher education. Now, too many institutions will have to complete for a tighter market of students because of a drop in the college-age population--a large portion of which is cynical about the value of a degree in a world marked by rising tuition and cab-driving Ph.D.s. Compounding these problems is the Reagan-Stockman offensive against federal spending, which will chop away at college budgets throughout cuts in grants and student loans...