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...French thus are supposed to devise substitutes for the ubiquitous anglicisms that comprise a good part of their everyday vocabulary: such non-bons mots as bestseller, sexy, blue jeans, bowling, gadget, checkup, checkout, jumbo jet, baby sitter, nonstop, dead heat (pronounced did it), hot dog, hijack, racket, zoom, jukebox, call girl, marketing, merchandising and leasing. Evidemment, the government will need un computer -preferred usage: ordinateur-to track down the offending business man, a designation that is not precisely conveyed by its closest French equivalent, l'homme d'affaires, and even less by la femme d'affaires...
Direct Flights. Charter flights are notorious for late takeoffs and other delays. New Yorkers Levi and Jeane Pace, who are veteran travelers, recently visited the Bahamas on an O.T.C. and found it "very well-organized." Their only gripe-checkout time at their hotel was noon and their plane did not leave until 6:30 p.m. Increasingly, tourists will be able to fly on major airlines rather than lesser-known charter outfits...
Gobbling More. Nonetheless, there is room within the industry for self-improvement. Many firms are at work on various technological innovations including, besides the automated checkout system, computerized warehouses, meat cutting by laser or electronic beam to reduce waste and labor costs, and solar energy to power grossly inefficient supermarket frozen-food cases. The problem is that the fragmented industry-there are 1,400 wholesalers in business today-has difficulty amassing the will, much less the capital, to carry through such developments. Says Gordon Bloom, a senior lecturer at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management and a leading food...
...public, the Nixon Administration professes serene confidence in its economic strategy. But backstage, a gnawing unease is growing. Indeed, President Nixon has recently called on his advisers, and some outside economists, to suggest alternatives to the tattered anti-inflation policy of Phase III. From board room to checkout counter, public pressure is building for some decisive action to deal with an economy that seems to have spun out of control into the kind of inflationary binge that historically precedes recession...
...packaged items. For example, Kroger crinkle-cut French fried potatoes, Code No. 010270280. The stickers can be put on at either the producer's plant or in the store. Coded tags for meat and fresh produce are affixed by the butchers or clerks who weigh them. At the checkout counter the cashier rapidly moves the code marks across an optical scanner. This relays the information to a computer, which is connected to a screen and a cash register. As the computer flashes the price of each item on the screen, it also rings up the cost on the register...