Word: caveat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Slogans Sell. At 33, the gaunt, olive-skinned attorney (Harvard Law, '58) is a new kind of lobbyist on the Washington legislative scene. As chief caveat caller to Emptor Americanus, he has no constituency but the American consumer, no financial backing beyond what he can generate from lectures and writing (his auto-safety book, Unsafe at Any Speed, sold 450,000 hard-cover and paperback copies, earned him $55,000). Nader's success is largely due to his unerring flair for phrasemaking, backed by diligent research. A self-taught speed reader, he flips through thousands of pages...
When it comes to consumer credit, the rule applied by many a department store, used-car dealer and friendly finance company is caveat emptor. Yet in an economy where outstanding credit totals $92.5 billion-at an annual cost of $12.5 billion in interest-the wary buyer or borrower is rare. Some of the interest rates charged-and paid -in the U.S. would scandalize Shylock. A Manhattan woman bought a $300 sofa that actually cost her $624 after two years of installment payments with interest of 108%. A Jersey City man ended up paying $420 for a TV set priced...
Parental Guide. A classification system will enable the M.P.A.A. to label certain films as "Suggested for Mature Audiences." Even this is not mandatory; it is a "request" to theater owners and a caveat to customers. Valenti feels that it is up to grownups to decide which pictures they want their children to see; the warning label will be mainly a guide for parents...
...Confii Guide offers this choice caveat as a description: "Few students seek academic credit for sadism, but for those who do, there is always...
...onetime winter home of the Ringling Bros, troupe, Sarasota is accustomed to circuses. Not so Fox Run, where one resident last week repeated in horrified tones the oldest caveat of modern living: "You never know who your neighbors...