Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dales never committed a miscue en route to humbling the 7,000-yard-long Hickory Ridge course. He parred every hole going out except for the second, where a three-putt cost him a bogey...
Repeal Inflationary Special-Interest Laws. The Jones Act, which requires all goods moving between U.S. ports to travel aboard high-cost U.S. ships, has many inflationary consequences, including raising the price of Alaskan oil shipped to the West and Gulf Coasts. The Davis-Bacon Act, a relic of the Depression, swells construction costs by requiring, in effect, that union wages must be paid on all federally aided projects...
Rosalynn Carter on her husband's buying habits: "Unless someone tells him, he has no idea about prices. He told me the other day he needed some shirts ... and he got out the Sears catalogue to look at them and see how much they cost...
There are few such dispensaries, however. And the rule of thumb is that if the cost of repair is more than one-third of the original purchase price of the appliance, better junk...
...sure, a little electrical object that is expected to last for years may cost no more, pace President Carter, than a no-martini lunch for two. Yet the metal, unlike the meal, is an acquired object deserving of respect, even affection. It is a dismal comment on American society that our whifflers and wopplers and slicers and sizzlers seem so often to be designed for the junk heap. Most of the major manufacturers claim to stand by their products, as do, slightly reeling, the repairmen who can cope with them. Still, they don't make'em like they...