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...many supermarkets, the usually frustrating chore of shopping for food has in recent weeks taken on something of the serendipitous air of an Easter-egg hunt. After years of seemingly nonstop prices, the costs of a growing number of items-eggs, mayonnaise, turkey, tuna, canned fruit-are actually turning down. Though the evidence is still spotty, the long and painful surge in food prices at last appears to be waning...
...check-out counter, it eliminates the chance for human error at the keys of a cash register. The computers also offer store managers a system of instant inventory control and a quick means of checking the results of sales and promotion campaigns. Finally, the system relieves stores of the chore of stamping prices on each individual item, which means that they can get by with fewer $4-an-hour grocery boys. Although the cost of installing the system can run as high as $125,000, industry analysts reckon that automated check-out can save a typical eight-lane supermarket about...
...emotional recitation of his final days in the Nixon Administration. On questioning by his lawyer, William Prates, Ehrlichman recalled being summoned to Camp David on the afternoon of April 29, 1973. There, on a cabin porch, Nixon told him he must resign. Ehrlichman said Nixon found this chore "very painful" and even "broke down at one point and cried." Nixon offered him money for legal fees and "anything else he could do for me." All Ehrlichman wanted, he testified, was for Nixon some day "to explain to our children" why he had to resign...
...dwell on Nixon's future soon becomes boring, but it is a necessary chore. To assume, as many have, that Nixon is a diseased and disgraced man, incapable of a comeback, will allow him the time and tolerance to make such a comeback. If he succeeds--if in five years he is the Republicans' next Alf Landon, the nation's next Averill Harriman, the world's next U Thant--Watergate and all of its revelations and investigations will have accomplished little...
...talking about why Harvard lost Saturday is a chore that must be done, if only in the hope that the same mistakes won't be repeated next week against hapless Columbia...