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...chances for broad acceptance seem uncertain at best. In Western Europe and Japan, which are far more dependent on OPEC oil than is the U.S., critics argue that the floor plan is mainly aimed at getting the rest of the industrial world to safeguard a big U.S. investment in costlier sources of energy. The critics fear that they would be locked into a long-term commitment to high-cost energy that would offer unclear returns far off in the future. Japan's Foreign Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said that he considered the floor plan "beyond the bounds of reason...
Cash Bribes. The French have been working almost as hard to sell their latest Mirage, which is a refinement of a design that is already six years old and, experts say, obsolescent. If the Mirage is less agile and costlier (at $6 million), the French claim that it is also faster (Mach 2.5) than its American rivals. Essentially, however, the French count on a buy-European argument...
...same tune, Grants developed an identity problem: having always pursued a bargain-minded blue-collar trade, the chain suddenly began broadening and upgrading its lines of clothing, furnishings and appliances in an apparent effort to try to compete with J.C. Penney and Sears. To make these costlier goods easy to buy, the company peddled a variety of credit-card plans that eventually led it into a financial culdesac. To buy inventory, Grants borrowed heavily at high rates, and then had to wait for customers to pay their bills...
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...