Word: costlier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rising Prices. The automakers have blamed their recent problems on a number of villains: high car-loan interest rates, costlier gasoline and a shattering of consumer confidence by anti-inflation pronouncements from the Ford White House. But automen have not said much about one obvious sales deterrent: high prices for new cars. On the average, the sticker prices of the 1975 models are about $450 higher than the 1974s. Since the end of the 1973 model-year just 15 months ago, car prices have risen by an average...
...Year holiday approached in the Soviet Union last week, Russian shoppers crowded stores from Tallinn to Tashkent in search of food, liquor, gifts and winter clothing. What they found was generally more abundant, of better quality-and costlier -than in the past. Stores on Moscow's busy Kalinin Prospekt shopping street carried the first-ever Soviet-made jeans at authentic Western prices: $10 to $20 a pair. In Leningrad, women were snapping up pantyhose imported from East Germany at $10 a pair. Other briskly selling items: Hungarian electric shavers at $35 each and a new line of Soviet-made...
...Thursday evening, two I.R.A. bombs exploded inside pubs in Birmingham, England's second largest city, leaving 19 people dead and 184 injured. It was the worst single bloodletting since the present agony in Northern Ireland began-costlier than even "Bloody Friday," July 21, 1972, when twelve people were slaughtered and 130 injured in a series of bombings in Belfast...
...others who absolutely have to use cars, tractors or trucks to do their jobs. These refunds could be made through a combination of lower payroll withholding taxes, higher welfare and Social Security payments and even some direct subsidies. If farmers got an income tax break to compensate for the costlier gasoline, there would be no cause for food prices to rise as a consequence...
Going into the negotiations, the rank and file were in a feisty mood and fully aware of their new power in an era of scarcer, costlier energy. Expressing the attitude of the majority, West Virginia Miner Jim ("Catfish") Barlow, 27, said: "This time we are going to get something or we're going to shut down everything-everything. I feel we got to get it now or it's gonna be too late...