Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RETAILERS cash registers are ringing because of panic buying of products that supposedly help consumers to cope with the fuel shortage. One hot item: a clock-operated thermostat that can lower nighttime temperatures automatically after everyone is asleep. Electric heaters are also selling rapidly, as are propane-burning catalytic heaters normally used by campers. The electric heaters gulp energy prodigiously, and the propane type can be dangerous in enclosed spaces because they give off carbon monoxide fumes...
...other big money item in the R. and D. budget is the breeder reactor, the machine that will produce energy in the next generation of nuclear (fission) power plants. This promising device, which creates (or breeds) slightly more fuel than it consumes, has been heavily funded ever since Nixon called for its fast development in 1971. Though other nations-most notably the U.S.S.R.-have prototype breeders, the U.S. does not. Its breeder program now gets $365.6 million a year. Next year, the report says, that amount should jump to $515.5 million, and a total of $2.8 billion should...
...need ever pay list price for any item and no shrewd buyer should pay the marked price on any equipment costing over $200. If the dealer is charging list price, look and listen, but don't buy. His profit margin is large enough to afford a few browsers. If the displayed price is already marked down, then the trick is to appear ready to buy a system or component, but unsure about what and from whom. After a half-hour of hesitation the salesman will either drop the price or throw you out. Some other techniques that work: seem dumb...
...feel guilty or timid about applying anything I've suggested. The stereo industry, through differentiation of product, is trying to exploit your ignorance about electronic equipment. No dealer is ever selling an item below cost and it's your right to get the lowest price...
...federal government issued this week a revised outline for the environmental study of the proposed John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, incorporating almost to the item recommendations made by the Harvard Square Task Force...