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Hurrah for your enlightening story on the cosmetics industry and the high price of beauty! From now on, if I buy such products I may be a fool, but at least I'll be an educated fool. Indeed, who's to say that the benefits of skin treatments are only skin-deep? One could say that a healthy mind starts with a healthy skin...
...squeezed into the mailbox. It was history's greatest mail-order spending spree, and despite the catalogues' enticements to decadence and conspicuous frivolity, Americans for the most part ordered up gifts that tended to be more tenable than trendy, disproving the adage that there's no fool like a Yule fool. Said Bergdorf Goodman Executive Vice President Leonard Hankin: "This was the kind of Christmas where people were investing in things because they were not so sure of what was going to happen to their dollars." Added Roger Horchow, owner of the zooming eight-year...
...suit for his son or a sugar daddy eying a bauble for his woman friend will pull out a plastic credit card to pay for it, and the U.S. consumer will be $1 trillion in debt. Figuring that in an inflationary period the wise person borrows while the fool saves, the consumer has been piling on debt at a quickening rate, buying new houses, new toys and just about everything else. Private debt now averages more than $4,600 for each man, woman and child...
...first I just needed a job," Abbott said. "I was more of a guileless fool than anything. My friend Man Ray ran a portrait studio in Paris and wanted an assistant," she added...
...chances for a settlement by the deadline. "We object to negotiating with a gun to our heads," says one union leader. The National Graphical Association, which represents 600 Times arid Sunday Times compositors, machine managers and stereotypers, is refusing to come to the bargaining table at all. "Only a fool conspires at the destruction of his members' jobs," says Joe Wade, union general secretary. "No trade union leader in any industry can give an ironclad guarantee of continuous production...