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...election would have been farcical even had Duong Van Minh and Nguyen Cao Ky run, because President Thieu's supporters would have rigged the election in his favor. Nevertheless, any election would have been preferable to none at all, if only because the campaigning would have provided an outlet for grievances and opposition policies...
...National Retail Merchants Association estimates that private labels account for a phenomenal 60% of the annual $42 billion in department-store sales. More than 90% of Sears, Roebuck's volume is in its own private labels, making it the largest outlet for such brands. In supermarkets, 10% to 15% of the grocery items are "house brands," and the figure is rising. A. & P. is the front runner; 30% of the items on its shelves, many of them manufactured by the firm itself, are familiar house brands, including Ann Page and Jane Parker...
...They're not draining the pools yet," says Producer Jack Haley Jr. Tennis is perhaps the biggest pastime. "It's a good outlet now when there's so much tension," says Anne Douglas. Indeed, there are still plenty of backyard pools and private tennis courts. But instead of holding a tennis tournament at the exclusive and expensive Beverly Hills Tennis Club, followed by a lavish buffet, tennis fans like Dinah Shore and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. are settling for simple at-home matches with pizza and hot dogs served up afterward...
...Outlet for Energy. Hermia's altruism is untypical of Compton-Burnett's predatory female dictators. Eliza is more in character: "Autocratic by nature, she had become impossibly so, and had come to find criticism a duty, an outlet for energy." When Hamilton's first letter of proposal to Hermia arrives, Eliza wants to answer it herself. When a second comes, she opens it and attempts to hide it. Like her predecessors in earlier books, Eliza is not only shameless, but awash with grandly rhetorical self-pity: "Years of care, of asking little for myself and accepting less...
...shares, which have since been split six times, today owns stock worth $24,600. Segel and his wife have more than $9,000,000 of it. In 1969 Segel sold the Commemorative Society to a historical foundation and set up the Franklin Mint Collector Society as his primary sales outlet...