Word: lessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traditional trade surplus has all but disappeared. Wage gains are exceeding the increase in workers' productivity, pushing up costs all around. Some of the fastest rises are in pay for service workers-laundry men, bus drivers, retail clerks-who produce no more than before and sometimes much less. "That," says Yale Economist William Fellner, "is what makes life less and less comfortable in a rich, industrial country...
...Munson protests the rising cost of plastic baby pants (69? a pair v. 29? less than two years ago) and of teen-agers who come in as "mother's helpers" four mornings a week (they now charge $1.25 an hour, up from 75? a year ago). She has furnished the house with used pieces rather than new furniture. She thought of economizing by making her own clothes, but concluded that there would be no saving "because the price of fabric has skyrocketed. To make an average dress, including lining, costs...
Lower-Middle Income. The La-zorcaks of suburban Pittsburgh -Diane, 30, Paul, 33, and two sons, aged five and two-have found that, as Mrs. Lazorcak puts it, "only the wealthy can afford inflation." On a net income of $8,600 last year, which was $1,500 less than in 1967, the La-zorcaks certainly cannot afford it. Husband and wife work together in D's Pizza Shop, which they own. Mr. Lazorcak has raised his pizza prices from $1.50 to $2 in the last 18 months but cannot keep up with the climbing costs of such simple items...
...Delicatessen. With two huge successes in less than four years, Jacqueline Susann is thrusting past such bestseller fabricators as Harold Robbins, Arthur Hailey and Leon Uris. She is now in a commercial sphere where fame matches fortune as a spur to effort...
...shadows keep falling across the story. Those grandparents of Ellen who purse their lips in disapproval but lend their Michigan lodge for the honeymoon are less comic old folks than vaguely sinister agents provocateurs. Nor is the northwestern shore of Lake Michigan the Garden of Eden it appears to the two children, pretending like every young couple to be the only, the original man and woman on earth. After lyrically celebrating the pleasures of lovemaking, Woiwode begins softly terrorizing paradise. Ghostly presences appear progressively more foreboding: the stuffed animals on the wall, the mice in the piano, night tappings...