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Word: orly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Value-conscious consumers, of course, are not the only people paying premium prices. Some upmarket shopping is strictly self-indulgent and "Me Generation" snobbery. Candy consumption is down, but status-hungry consumers are still gobbling up items like Godiva, chocolates at $12 per lb. L'Oréal hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Buyers Swing to Quality | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

Whether or not the roundhouse threat was genuine, the danger was that OPEC'S big depositors would grow wary about the stability of the world's banking system, perhaps even calling into question the value of money itself. A number of OPEC nations might even decide that it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Spread off Petrobrinkmanship | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

The assurance came not a moment too soon. Observed a top international banker in London: "The situation is fraught with peril. There are only potential sellers of dollars out there, no buyers at all." Added Giuseppe Tome, an investment banker in Geneva: "The feeling exists in the banking community that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Spread off Petrobrinkmanship | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

Chase responded that the Iranian statement was not correct. It and the six other U.S. banks in the syndicate voted, over the protest of the four non-U.S. banks involved, to declare the default. The U.S. banks could use the Iranian assets frozen a week earlier to offset their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Spread off Petrobrinkmanship | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

"The old friends of consumer protection such as Ted Kennedy, Birch Bayh and George McGovern are largely in hiding or otherwise engaged running for election.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Open Season on the FTC | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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