Word: high
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used to promote cleaning aids, health and beauty products, and processed foods. After a coupon is redeemed by a customer, the manufacturer of the product pays the store not only the coupon's face value, usually 5? or 10?, but also a handling fee that may be as high as 5? and is mostly profit for the store. Most shoppers would probably find the supershopping routine very exhausting. Samtur spends five hours a week clipping coupons, filing cents-off labels and mailing out refund requests, which average 100 a month. She tears labels while watching TV; when she takes...
Prices are indeed high. In the shopping meccas of Paris' Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, Munich's Maximilianstrasse or Brussels' Avenue Louise, a Pierre Cardin tie costs $40, a Réty suit $440 and a Balenciaga handbag $370. Even the cost of window-shopping is steep. Hotel rooms in a smart area of a capital city can easily cost $75 a night, a good dinner for two starts at $60 or more, and a week's car rental often tops $300. Local residents, of course, avoid the stores and services that tourists frequent. Even...
...service to customers, wages to workers, or taxes to governments, though all of that is necessary. "The objective," he intones, "is to reward those who make the business possible by investing their capital in it: the shareholders." That view might seem outrageous, were it not that customers give generally high marks to Citizens' service. Remarkable in the unglamorous utilities business, Citizens last year earned a walloping 19% after taxes on revenues of $108 million from sales of electricity, water, gas, telephone, and sewage services to some 500 communities in ten states, from Hawaii to Vermont. The company is helped...
...with a team average of .290, they lead the majors. But September is coming, the cruel month when the Sox usually falter. As the pennant race quickens, and Boston struggles to redeem past failures by overtaking the Baltimore Orioles, the team's batting is extraordinary, even by its high standards, and for two good reasons: a pair of slugging outfielders named Fred Lynn and Jim Rice...
...Masterson sprucing up in Dodge City? Gosh, no, this is an urban cowboy on Manhattan's Upper East Side. But the scene could have taken place in almost any American city, east or west of the Pecos. High-stepping city slickers everywhere are discovering that cowboy boots go just as well with a pinstripe suit, a satin disco outfit or designer jeans as they do with a pair of saddle-worn chaps and Levi's. Al Martinez, co-owner of Manhattan's To Boot boutique, has even outfitted an 85-year-old grandmother. Says he: "Sales...