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...well-known labels. In fact, many house brands are produced by name-brand food companies. Also, pass up "instant foods" that take less time to prepare but are usually more expensive than their inconvenient alternatives. By buying house brands and avoiding convenience foods, a typical middle-income family could chop $350 off its annual food budget...
Three coaches, including Vermont's Chop LaCasse, were not allowed into the banquet because they did not have tickets. It seems last year a number of rowdies snuck in for some free roast beef. This year every member of the Harvard team had tickets. Plead as they might, the three coaches could not get in. Disgusted with his third place finish, LaCasse took the other coaches out for a night on the town. They had three Harvey Wallbangers each at Mr. Up's in Middlebury, then repaired to LaCasse's favorite bar in Burlington. After that, the finished...
...read the comments offered by the liberal and crypto-liberal television, newspaper and newsmagazine reporters, savoring every rumor, fact, suspicion and information from a reliable source with regard to the dilemma faced by the present Administration, it occurs to me that there has not been this much anticipatory chop licking since Daniel spent an uncomfortable afternoon in the lions...
Traveling by means other than a car was no joyride, either. Airlines, struggling to stay within new fuel allocation, have canceled 1,000 of their 13,000 daily scheduled flights within the U.S. and will chop many more after the first of the year. Travelers are turning back to the railroads in such numbers that trains are jammed...
...regular jobless payments. Another amendment calls for tax deductions of up to $1,000 for householders who, for the purpose of retaining heat in their homes, put in new insulation, storm windows and the like. The President would be given broad powers to limit temperatures in office buildings and chop working hours in shopping centers and schools. In debating the bill, the Senate rejected an amendment that would have required gas rationing by Jan. 15, on the ground that it was not yet certain that rationing will be needed...