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...were selling, and not very well, for $7.50. The story was half true, but insignificant: tickets for every kind of fund-raising dinner are invariably sold at cut rates at the last minute in order to fill the hall. And Mitchell's dinner brought in $50,000 to fatten the party's depleted bankroll...
...serving up serious music in easily digestible chunks, Victor hopes to attract a whole new audience to classical fare. Whether friends can be won for classical music this way is dubious; the experiment is comparable to editing the tougher passages out of Shakespeare or redrawing El Greco to fatten his perspective...
Neither major political party would like anything better in this election year than to present itself as the only true friend of the U.S. taxpayer. Republicans are painfully sensitive to charges that the G.O.P. is trying to "fatten the herd by feeding the bulls," i.e., strengthen the economy by tax relief to business rather than to the individual. Democrats, who during years of governmental responsibility suffered the onus of high taxes, are now beginning to enjoy themselves−and they have lined up behind an effort to lower taxes by increasing individual income-tax exemptions...
...high because someone between the rancher and the retail counter is getting too much gravy? The answer is no, even though cattlemen are selling their grass-fed steers at a loss in today's markets. But middlemen are making no lush profits. The feeders, who buy steers to fatten up for market, are lucky to make a 10% profit-provided that they guess right on what the price will be when they sell. Meat packers' profits are smaller: last year they were six-tenths of a cent on each dollar of sales. The retailer, whose average markup...
...union also still bitterly opposes the use of typists instead of compositors to set TTS copy, sarcastically calls it a "promising means of union-busting." Thus far, TTS has not created unemployment among I.T.U. members. Papers like the Boulder (Colo.) Camera have simply been able to expand their coverage, fatten up their pages and grow with the same printing staff they had before...