Word: item
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ajemian's reporting was woven into a cover story by Staff Writer Walter Isaacson, who got out from behind his desk in Manhattan to catch Connally in action at some Northeastern whistlestops. As a native son of Louisiana and former city hall reporter for the New Orleans States-Item, Isaacson is familiar with the eccentricities of Southern politicians. "Their style," he says, "is a stimulating mix of the byzantine and the evangelical." This week, after a year and a half as a Nation writer in New York, Isaacson begins a new assignment as a congressional correspondent in Washington...
Stores like coupons, which can be offered for any item but are most commonly 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...
...Feds are not the only losers. In states where sales taxes are high, avoidance schemes abound. The simplest ruse is the empty-box trick. The customer buys a big-tag item, such as an expensive suit or shoes and makes a deal with the merchant to "mail" it to an address in a state with a lower rate. The merchant obligingly sends an empty box, and the customer walks out with the goods. A variant is to send the purchase to a friend in another state. Rob, an accountant, saved $600 on a $12,000 painting by having the gallery...
...election reflects fundamental problems of leadership. The two who display some size and fire, John Connally and Ted Kennedy (who is resolutely undeclared but watching with interest), come with reputations shadowed by their pasts. California Governor Jerry Brown, with his sleek vocabularies of "planetary realism," sounds like an item from The Whole Earth Catalog. Brown possesses a disco Jesuit allure and what seems to be a gut instinct for the politics of the future, but has far to go before he persuades the nation he is anything but a welterweight opportunist. Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford are ambassadors from...
...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, clothing costs declined slightly, while food, the other big-ticket item in the family budget, rose by only 0.2% for the month. Testifying before Congress's Joint Economic Committee last week, Alfred Kahn, the White House's chief inflation fighter, argued that if it were not for the energy situation, inflation "would clearly be out of the double-digit range...