Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...customer can buy a meal for $1 or less. Its price list reads like something exhumed from the good old days: hamburger 25?,,cheeseburger 30?, Quarter-Pounder 55?, Big Mac 60?, a small bag of French fries 24?, milkshake 30?. Prices vary slightly throughout the country; for example, most items in the New York City area cost a nickel more. Surprisingly, burgers are not much better than a break-even item for McDonald's; the highest profits come on French fries, soft drinks and the extra nickel a customer pays for a cheeseburger. McDonald's raised prices...
SOMEHOW this was not to be just another medical or archaeological triumph, for to have dented the news with a non-disaster item for so prolonged a time during the Watergate hearings was a tough task. Other non-unique stories that echoed the past passed with barely a ripple of eyebrows--Elizabeth Taylor divorced Richard Burton, Atlantis was rediscovered off Cadiz, Spain. Other biographies of Monroe had been done before and passed out of print without a whimper, and many questioned what Mailer had brought to the task that gave it such notoriety...
...help unload trucks, only part-time employees mind the store. They include moonlighting policemen, housewives and four or five high school basketball players from the Friends' Academy in Locust Valley, N.Y. Clerks make no effort to push a particular brand or persuade customers to buy a higher-priced item; they simply take orders. Yet JGE turns over $300,000 worth of stock about every two weeks...
...just read your People item [June 18] about my recent return from China and was amazed to find I've turned into John Wayne...
Stores will be required to keep a list of "freeze prices," which are the highest levels that retailers charged for at least 10% of sales on any given item or service between June 1 and June...