Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wholesaler, who adds a margin averaging 4?. The retailer is then allowed the same margin he got in 1973, plus a 3? inflation increase, a pass-through allowance for higher rental costs and a further price boost for antipollution requirements. All that adds up to about a dime...
...island, with its Spanish and Bahamian roots, bought up and restored many of the Conch-style cottages and rambling homes in the Old Town section. Prices there tripled in three years. The shops along drowsy and all-but-derelict Duval Street were renovated and transformed; the old Kress dime store became Fast Buck Freddie's, a trendy shoppe. Five hundred new hotel and motel units were built, with 450 more plus a convention center on the drawing board...
...Birdy reaches these heights. The conclusion is a letdown, the magic partially dissipated in explanations. Birdy and Al are not above dime-store philosophizing, attempting to blame their wounds on their cramped pasts. Their recollections, in fact, sound almost idyllic, a Norman Rockwell vision of mischievous childhood with none of the grime and flavor airbrushed...
...difficult for Westerners to understand how so vast a population can psychologically reverse itself so quickly. It is like trying to imagine an aircraft carrier turning on a dime. Over the years, of course, the Chinese have been required to perform wrenching changes of allegiance, as friends became enemies and onetime heroes of the revolution underwent their metamorphoses in the character assassins' wall-poster invective that declared dissidents to be "insects," "pests" or "ferocious feudal monsters." The process has bred measures of confusion, sophistication, cynicism and nimbleness in the Chinese...
...labor side, most union leaders angrily reject the 7% limit on wage-and-benefit raises. They note that the increased costs of maintaining jealously guarded benefits, such as health insurance and pensions, would eat up most, and in some cases all, of the allowable raise without adding a dime to paychecks. Amid cries for more flexibility, the Administration stumbled about for several weeks before it indicated last week that workers would not be charged for higher costs of maintaining present benefit levels...