Word: cheapness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then Nicaraguans have too long had their leaders foisted upon them. The only answer, many people now feel, is a genuinely free election -and not the usual ballot-stuffing kind in which votes are bought by handing out five córdobas (about 70?) and a bottle of guaro (cheap rum) to the poor and illiterate. Failing that, they fear that Matagalpa is likely to be remembered as only one in a chain of bloody rebellions...
Though all the Sisters' sales are more than double those in the embargo year of 1973, when the cheap-oil era ended, only three of the companies earned more profit last year than they did then: Shell, Mobil and California Standard (SoCal), which markets under its Chevron Trademark. And none but SoCal has regained the peaks of 1974, when soaring prices gave them a one-shot windfall by raising the value of petroleum they held in inventory. The later profits from price boosts have gone primarily to the OPEC nationalizes of the oil. But the companies have done...
...doing this year in record numbers. The big attraction is the lowered air fares, but many tourists are not prepared for the rude shocks they receive when they change their dollars into foreign currencies. West Germany's seven U.S. consulate offices are flooded with young tourists who hopped aboard cheap flights with the expectation of living in Europe on, say, $10 a day. Ten dollars an hour is more like it, and they find themselves stranded. Philadelphians Eugene and Bonnie Baker planned to bicycle around England and stay in cozy old inns. They ended up boarding in spartan lodgings, where...
...screenplay still leaves a lot to be desired. Polon is no wit, and her attempts to portray such overly familiar New Yorkers as SoHo art dealers, pushy cab drivers and Greenwich Village hipsters fall flat. Hot issues like lesbianism and abortion are dragged into the action for cheap effects rather than serious consideration. There is not a single memorable or startling line in the movie...
...wearer an extraordinary maneuverability. Unlike the noisy, steel clamp-ons that kids used to wear, they are smooth and light, gliding over cracked pavement with silent grace and dispelling-deceptively-the fear of falling. Aficionados compare the sensation to that of skiing or surfing. The thrills are not exactly cheap: an assembled pair of wheels, skates and boots cost from $60 to $150, and customized ones can run as high as $1,000. Many people, understandably, prefer to rent their wheels...