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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much of the June rise was fueled by the continuing surge in oil prices; this helped push up transportation costs during the month at an annual rate of more than 22%, largely because of the rocketing cost of gasoline, which soared at a rate of 92% a year. By contrast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Prices: Still Flying High | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

But that is rather like saying that if it were not for overeating, fat people would have no difficulty losing weight. The fact is that the nation's energy and inflation struggles are hopelessly intertwined, and neither can be won alone. Earlier this spring, for instance, the Administration confidently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Prices: Still Flying High | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

If Pan Am's merger bid is approved, it has enough stock to take immediate control of the company without having to negotiate with other shareholders. Despite its majority holdings, Pan Am, which paid $42 a share, or about $186 million, for the stock, does not control National. Under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pan Am's Buy | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

Since that year, when it became the first foreign automaker ever to produce cars in the U.S., Volkswagen has been winning back part of the ground it lost in the mid-1970s to the Japanese trio of Toyota, Datsun and Honda. While Volkswagen's sales rose 13% worldwide dur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: VW's New Drive | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

At Lake Geneva's Sugar Shack, a spacious, somewhat rundown nightspot, there is runway action thrice nightly. For a $4 cover charge and a two-drink minimum, a female customer can catch a 1-hr. 45-min. show-and usually a pinch of beefcake too, if she feels the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: And Now, Bring on the Boys | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

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