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Anong other things that consumers say they are cutting down-or out-are charitable contributions, entertaining at theaters (now that even many off-Broadway tickets are up to $13.50 or more) and eating out. Recoiling at restaurant bills that can easily reach or exceed $25 for just one at lunch, more office workers are brown-bagging their midday meal or seeking out a growing number of health-oriented restaurants that ignore or play down booze and beef. The price of a single martini has risen in some Manhattan restaurants to more than $3, an extortionate sum that is only slightly...
...First Congress proposed the Seventh Amendment, guaranteeing the right to a jury trial "in Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars." But back in 1789 they could never have imagined anything like Memorex...
...international problems appeared to subside, serious national troubles cried for attention right outside Begin's hospital room. His illness was only a temporary shield from the political turmoil engendered by the harsh facts of Israel's runaway economic crisis: an 80% inflation that threatens to exceed 100% by the end of the year, a balance of payments deficit that is approaching $4 billion, a total foreign debt that has doubled in five years to $13 billion...
...even if there were no quota; imports so far in 1979 have averaged only 8.145 million bbl. a day. For 1980 the daily limit will be set somewhere between 8.2 million and 8.5 million bbl. Because the recession in the U.S. economy has begun, imports probably would not exceed that level in any case. If the quota were to stay at roughly that point in 1981 and succeeding years (a decision that may have to be made by another President), it might begin to bite! The nation would be forced to conserve fuel, or produce more itself, to accommodate normal...
...media budgets for summitry now exceed in many respects that of the Government for the same occasion. Cameramen stake out every important site at exorbitant rates. ABC furnished its people with more badges than the Austrian police could claim. The briefing books assembled by TV research staffs were often better than those put out by the Government...