Word: eyeglass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weirdo white raised by a poor black Southern family, who;hearing his first Lawrence Welk record, hits the road north to find his own kind of music. "All they played when I was a kid," explains Martin, a.k.a. the Jerk, "was blues." Martin mints a fortune by inventing nonslip eyeglasses, loses it when Reiner, in a walk-on as an irate consumer, brings a successful suit in behalf of cross-eyed eyeglass wearers. Complicated? Wait till you see the sequel...
...makers of Dow Bathroom Cleaner, your local Emmy-award-winning eyewitness news team or your favorite daytime game show. It's an experience that gives insight into answers to questions the game show wouldn't ask or events the news team wouldn't cover. It's really a musical eyeglass cleaner...
...Roughly 100 million Americans wear contact lenses or prescription eyeglasses, for which they paid $1.8 billion in 1974 alone. One reason that prices are high, the FTC charged last week, is that states and professional societies impose bans on advertising by eye doctors (ophthalmologists) and trained, nonmedical eye experts (optometrists). As evidence, the FTC pointed out that 24 states also ban ads by eyeglass makers (opticians) and prices of corrective lenses there are higher than in states that permit opticians to advertise. The FTC is therefore proposing a national trade rule to end all prohibitions on advertising eyeglasses. Next step...
...zapped and all but ransacked in a search for weapons and bombs. At times the policy has been abused, and passengers have been arrested as a result of the searches for a variety of unrelated offenses; occasionally, the metal detectors have been absurdly tuned to pick up loose change, eyeglass hinges and cigarette-pack liners. But it is hard to argue with success. In the past five months, not a single domestic airline has been hijacked, compared to twelve hijackings in the same period last year. Of course, a skyjacker could strike successfully next week, but clearly the Administration...
...Food and Drug Administration, recently accused by consumer groups of being too permissive toward the industries it is supposed to police, was the activist last week in a variety of fields. Items: ¶Americans buy 40 million pairs of prescription eyeglasses a year and an uncounted number of ordinary sunglasses. Now, anyone purchasing a new pair is likely to find that the price has suddenly gone up by $3 to $5. This is no evasion of Phase II, but the result of an FDA order that makes it illegal in all 50 states to sell eyeglass lenses that...