Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down the price of latex. On top of this, Brunei's oil reserves are fast depleting. To counter the economic threat, Malaya has embarked on an ambitious diversification program, is offering a five-year tax holiday to new industries and pushing a big land-development program for new cash crops...
...thousands more unwary tourists poured in, packing Zermatt's 56 hotels to the rafters, cash registers jingled-and typhoid spread unchecked...
...where there used to be six. I think this law is going to kill splendor in dining." Expense-accounters often ask for separate checks for liquor and food to keep both under $25; others put $24.50 of a $28 bill on their credit card and pay the rest in cash in order not to attract the attention...
...late brother, Will, whose names are joined in Willmark. Led today by President Bernstein, Willmark has spawned many imitators but still leads the field. Besides keeping a watch out for the bartender, restaurant cashier or gas-station attendant who neglects to ring up a sale on the cash register, Will-mark's 1,500 fulltime "shopping analysts" also rate each salesperson's ability by filling out a secret, 60-question "Selling-Quotient-Builder" after every transaction. Were his fingernails clean? Did he try to induce the customer to trade up or to buy something else as well? What...
Clients pay Willmark from $21 to $750 monthly per store for its services and its many pamphlets, which offer inspirational selling tips to employees and dire cautions to management. Though a sign on every cash register warns salespeople that Willmark is apt to prowl the store at any time, employees seldom spot the professional shoppers. Willmark hires only "ordinary-looking people," bans flashy blondes or conspicuous Don Juans. Its shoppers earn only $60 a week and expenses, but the job is much sought after, since it involves the pleasure of being paid to buy anything from expensive whisky to diamonds...