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The introduction of the Market's 10% value-added tax on all goods and services has irritated the British consumer who is attempting to cope with an 8.4% inflation rate. Imports from the Continent, such as Italian refrigerators, French cars and German leather goods, have flowed into England faster...
The letter may have been sensible from the standpoint of an executive who must get along with the Arabs, but as could easily have been predicted, it was a public-relations disaster. Californians promptly began a grass-roots boycott of Standard's Chevron gas stations. A group of 30...
The dull gray streets and squares of the most rigidly doctrinaire Soviet-bloc country in Europe last week looked more like Watkins Glen than East Berlin. Along broad Karl-Marx-Allee strolled long-haired young men and women from every continent, laughing and singing. In the big fountain on Alexanderplatz...
After flirting tentatively with le peuple and their street fashions, after enthusiastically showcasing medium-priced looks for the boutiques, the Continent's top couturiers finally seem to have solved their identity crisis-solidly in favor of privilege and high prices. As the preview season reached its peak in Paris...
About the size of a modern lion, the sabertooth, or Smilodon (from the Greek words for "knife" and "tooth"), had powerful jaws equipped with two long fangs that it could use like daggers to rip into large prey, notably the poky, plant-eating mastodons that also inhabited the American continent...