Word: mousetrap
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...better mousetrap? No, but some awfully cute mice: Maria Shriver, 8, Robert Kennedy Jr., 10, David Kennedy, 9, Courtney Kennedy, 7, Robert Shriver, 10, and Sydney Lawford, 7. They set up the roadside stand in Hyannis Port to sell postcards with pictures of their Jate uncle and other mementoes to raise funds for the Kennedy Memorial Library. The world beat a path to their door, and they raised $50 from the tourists the first day, but then the whole thing got out of hand, and traffic cops sent the youngsters scampering back to the family...
...because it was such an early leader in the computer field that its Univacs were once synonymous with computers. Like many companies, however, Sperry Rand found it easier to make than to market a good product. Cracks the departing Louis Rader: "Whoever said that if you build a better mousetrap the world will beat a path to your door was out of his cotton-picking mind...
...inflation. "With strong markets, with steady costs, with lower taxes, American business does not need higher price levels to assure continued growth and profits." Later in the week, he suggested that businessmen might even cut prices in some fields, "to give us," as he put it, "the best mousetrap at the lowest price." Chief Economic Adviser Walter Heller repeated the President's warning against price rises, urged labor leaders to avoid asking for excessive wage demands if they "do not want the blame for restarting a wage-price spiral." He also repeated his prediction that G.N.P. will...
...Better Mousetrap. He declined to be drawn into the Bobby Baker mess: "I think every man is entitled to a fair trial, and I would like to see what conclusion is reached and what the evidence shows-with which I am not familiar-before I would make a judgment." And how would he label...
...water and oil, and so forth. Nevertheless, we have one thing they don't have, and that is our system of private enterprise-free enterprise-where the employer, hoping to make a little profit, the laborer, hoping to justify his wages, can get together and make a better mousetrap...