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...certainly not the ones making a killing at the check-out counter. Time notes that 87 per cent of food price increases take place after the farmer has received his share. Time laid the blame for these price increases on the consumers, with their "insatiable desire for even fancier processing and packaging" and American labor with their ever increasing wages...
...pampered wards of Government living high off the inflation that is pushing up food prices?10% this year. Few realize that 87% of the rise in food prices since 1973 has occurred after the food left the farm. That is a consequence of Americans' insatiable desire for ever fancier processing and packaging, along with rising off-farm wages. Last year, for the first time, workers in slaughterhouses, canneries, freezing plants and supermarkets got more (32%) of the retail food dollar than farmers did. Farmers received only 31% of the money spent in food stores and restaurants, down from...
Dress codes in clubs, restaurants and schools are a form of social discipline resting on the premise that certain kinds of dress will preclude certain kinds of behavior and, of course, certain kinds of people. Reluctantly, some of the nation's fancier restaurants have started admitting the tieless. But not La Caravelle in New York City. Says Co-Owner Fred Deere: "If you give in on ties, then people will start showing up without jackets. Next you will have shirts with short sleeves, or unbuttoned to the navel, with hairy chests and gold chains all over the place. That...
...stick diamond costs only about 500; its major maker, the 56-year-old Hi-Flier Manufacturing Co. in Decatur, Ill., sells millions of them yearly. An exotic 45-ft. dragon made of Mylar costs only about $8, while a large tetrahedral model sells for $20. (On the other hand, fancier, higher-flying kites can cost up to $2,000.) A 500-ft.-long, 30-lb.-test string costs about...
...shop markets some 170 games, the latest of which is a Tolkien imagining called War of the Ring. For $20 the Hobbit fancier gets three large maps of Middle Earth, and a densely printed 28-page rulebook with instructions like "To attempt Citadel Reduction, the Dark Power Player must expend one Shadow Point for each Nazgul present...