Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ninth auction put on by John P. Wilson, 40, a former precision-instruments salesman who switched to the nostalgia industry nine years ago, when he turned an unexpectedly tidy profit on a surplus lot of 1,000 old pull-chain toilets -a $100,000 windfall now memorialized in the name of his company: Golden Movement Emporium...
Munter has over 1000 signatures on a petition and has given out a few hundred chain letter petitions that urge President Carter to "press personally the international community for immediate relief" for the refugees in Thailand and Malaysia...
...perhaps 100 or more per gal. to gasoline prices by year's end, lifting a typical family's automotive fuel bill by $250. According to one estimate, food prices will go up by some $70 per family, since energy is used intensively throughout the food chain, from farm to supermarket. Anyone unfortunate enough to heat his home with oil is likely to find that the cost of keeping warm in the Northeast this winter will rise...
...Fozzie, the apologetic bear: Gonzo, the not quite turkey; Miss Piggy, the karate queen in the lavender gloves; Dr. Teeth and his Electric Mayhem band; Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, the melon-brained mad scientist, and his twittering assistant Beaker. A human villain tries to kidnap Kermit to shill for his chain of French-fried frogs' legs restaurants. When things look black, Kermit says in despair, "All I can think of is millions of frogs on tiny crutches." As is true with the TV show, human actors have no trouble playing with Muppets. Bob Hope sells ice cream at a fair...
...Americans," declares Jim Hines indignantly. As a vice president of Holiday Inns, Inc., Hines is neither disinterested nor powerless. Says he: "You're sitting there with more than 1,500 Holiday Inns in the U.S., with 20% of them at roadside, and you begin thinking, hard." The motel chain's response: the National Travel Gas Advisory Plan, with every inn "holidexing" daily into a computer infomation about fuel availability at some five nearby stations. Tourists who call 800-238-8000 can find out which inns-and hence which regions-are well supplied with gas. In the two weeks...