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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this book will discover that even consumer advocates can be guilty of false and misleading labeling: Myerson is by no means "complete." The 100 or so pages devoted to owning a house, for example, dispatch property insurance in four paragraphs. Retirement planning in Myerson's view seems to consist only of setting up a tax-deferred IRA or Keogh Plan savings fund. The former Miss America and ex-commissioner of consumer affairs for New York City is hardheaded about bargaining over terms, especially when buying a home. Counsels Myerson: "If you find the house fails to meet certain standards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Reads to Riches | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...tests were "partially available through official channels and party through pickups by private visitors to China" he explains. Barendsen assembled a staff of US experts to evaluate the tests, which consist of short-answer and essay questions...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Peking's Biggest Test | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

...THEIR WORST, political campaigns are not unlike trashy novels. In large measure they consist of contrived drama, timely coincidence, tawdry innuendo and caricatured protagonists indulging in fantastical posturing. They are memorable mainly for the deja vu they inspire. And they are getting longer and longer. And longer. If a presidential contest were a book, it would be thousands of pages long...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Never the Twain Shall Meet | 11/13/1979 | See Source »

...task force would consist of parents, students, and representatives from the mayor's office, the Board of Education, and the Boston Police, Corcoran said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 600 Protest at City Hall Against Racial Violence | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

Most of all, you're limited by that camera. A day at the Open does not consist of walking to the seat (or number on a bench) listed on your ticket and witnessing every point of every stadium match, unless the match is Connors-Borg or Evert-Navratilova or Nastase-anyone. The real action can be anywhere--the 19,000 seat stadium, the 6,000 seat grandstand or one of the numerous side courts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Open Season | 9/18/1979 | See Source »

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