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...conventional stoves and store them like TV dinners until the time comes to serve. The dishes are then popped into a microwave oven, which heats them in just a minute or two as high-frequency radar microwaves are absorbed by the food. Institutional users find the process ideal for low-cost assembly-line feeding...
...that is a dangerous hour at Filene's. As soon as the opening gong rings, a stampede of waiting shoppers surges through the doors and overruns the basement with a fervor that has often caused near-riots. They are there to get first pick of the low-cost luxuries that have made Filene's Basement the world's most unusual bargain store...
...hopes to stretch out his budget for a while. But Alliance economists are busy figuring out scaled-down programs, even though there is a possibility that the Senate might reverse the House action. A $150 million cutback could mean abandoning plans next year to build 10,000 classrooms and low-cost housing for some 175,000 people; it would cancel low-interest loans to 10,000 farmers for plows, seed and fertilizer to escape subsistence-level farming, wipe out a plan for loans to 6,000 small businessmen to stimulate grass-roots private enterprise, and force withdrawal of U.S. support...
...Time to Delay. In Colombia, though the church hierarchy remains magisterially conservative in the person of 71-year-old Luis Cardinal Concha Córdoba, priests have led peasant pro tests, organized community stores to sell low-cost food to the poor, set up a radio network that beams reading les sons and farming instructions to remote villages. In Mexico (where since 1926 it has been illegal for priests to walk around in cassocks) and in Venezuela, churchmen have sponsored organiza tions of idealistic volunteers who, in Peace Corps fashion, seek to help the poor in slums and backlands...
...steelmakers complain of inroads by the Western Europeans; the French snap crossly at the Belgians; the Germans lash out at the British, the French, the Belgians and the Swedes; and no one, of course, has a kind word for Japan's low-cost producers. Last week, alarmed that undercutting foreigners have grabbed more than 21% of the German steel market, German steelmen vowed to risk a loss to meet the price of any cut-rate competitor...