Word: collectors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...field of battle remained three corporations - General Sexotics, Cybordelics, and Intercourse International. When the production of these giants was at its peak, sex, from a private amusement, a spectator sport, group gymnastics, a hobby, and a collector's market, turned into a philosophy of civilization. McLuhan, who as a hale and hearty old codger had lived to see these times, argued in his Genitocracy that this precisely was the destiny of mankind from the moment it entered on the path of technology; that even the ancient rowers, chained to the galleys, and the woodsmen of the North with their...
Thus that first sign of an overextended consumer, a rise in loan delinquency rates, has yet to occur. Mortgage loan delinquencies are at an alltime low, reports Claude Pope, the head of the Mortgage Bankers Association, and the "loan collector" who used to break the thumbs of widows and orphans has been renamed a "loan counselor." But if the economy slows as expected next year, it is going to take an awful lot of counseling to advise the American people about how to carry a trillion dollars of debt...
After Atget died in 1927, Abbott located and purchased his glass-plate negatives and prints while supported financially by art dealer and collector Julien Leby...
Valerie A. Dow of the Washington Solar Lobby said if a taxpayer spends $2000 on a solar collector, his income tax will be reduced by $600. An additional 20 per cent credit is awarded on the next $8000 spent. A consumer can amass up to $2200 in tax credit, she said...
That leaves Ford's bigger autos-the Lincoln Continental and Mark V-the only full-size cars not going on a diet for 1979. It will be the last year, though, for Ford's yachts; the company is pushing them as collector's items at collector's prices. The Mark V lists at $13,067 and is expected to sell well. That presents a problem for Ford. To meet the 19-m.p.g. average this year, the company must offset the thirst of its big models with increased production of little cars. But sales of its mainstay...