Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stars, documentaries offering cinema-verité glimpses of Bob Dylan or the Rolling Stones. There have even been a couple of films that used the world of rock as a metaphor for power and ruin: for in stance, Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (TIME, Dec...
Sweet and sour news greeted the nation's sugar lovers last week. The palatable side: after 20 months of dizzying, nonstop rises (TIME, Dec. 9), wholesale sugar prices dipped slightly. Major refiners, including Amstar Corp., the nation's biggest producer, and SuCrest Corp., pared the cost of a 5-lb. bag of sugar by 25?, to $3.48. The sour news is that despite these reductions, supermarket prices are likely to continue rising for weeks before they decline or even stabilize, because the recent rapid series of wholesale boosts-seven in the five weeks prior to last week-have...
Refiners could well have had additional reasons for seizing the first opportunity to cut wholesale prices. Fed up with high sugar costs, the Consumer Federation of America is staging a ten-day nationwide consumer boycott scheduled to end Dec. 10. Some supermarket chains, like Tradewell Stores Inc., which operates in California, Oregon and Washington, are urging customers not to buy sugar at all; in one week the chain's sugar sales dropped 75%, according to Tradewell President Al Thompson. Moreover, the fourfold increase in retail sugar prices so far this year has fattened company profits remarkably, but those profits...
...used to think that Nixon treated the press very badly, but after reading the article on what the press thinks of Ford, after his decent treatment of them [Dec. 2], they deserved all the rotten treatment they got and then some...
Your American Note on humanity's first interstellar message [Dec. 2] called it an act of faith. You might also have described it as a symbolic act, part of a revolution in our concept of our place in the universe...