Word: outright
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ultimately, the best hope for beating inflation is not to browbeat industry and unions but to deal with the inflationary plague that is spread by the Government. Certainly wage and price restraint is important, and Stage II is better than outright controls. But excessive Government spending, towering deficits and ever multiplying regulations are also fundamental causes of the price spiral. Says Pfizer's Pratt: "We have told the President, as most companies have, that we will abide by the guidelines. But what the Government itself is doing is a big part of the problem." In short, the nation would...
...more rental buildings in desirable neighborhoods go "condo" or "co-op." The owner of a cooperative buys shares in a corporation that owns his entire building and land; the number of shares depends on the size and desirability of his apartment. By contrast, a condominium buyer owns his apartment outright and has joint title with the other condo owners to the land surrounding his building...
Because customers buy the systems outright rather than leasing them, simple functions like moving phones and changing numbers can be performed easily by company employees at minimal cost. The systems also save money by automatically routing long-distance calls through the most cost-efficient trunk lines. Citicorp's 1,500-phone Danray system is expected to save $10 million over the next decade. Another major multinational firm installed a 2,500-phone system for $3 million and expects the savings to balance that cost in three years...
Midnight Express. If you want to be blown away by emotional intensity, but don't want to pay five bucks and travel to Boston for The Deer Hunter, try Midnight Express, right here in Harvard Square. Another politically naive and outright xenophobic Hollywood product, Midnight Express still succeeds in conveying a very forceful statement of individual will. The story of an arrogant American college kid who gets caught (through his own stupidity) trying to smuggle hash home for his friends, the movie works because it is beautifully filmed and edited, because the violence, though abundant, is carefully placed, and because...
That deal was Giuseppe's undoing. His father thought he had bought Fortunata outright with the truck. Not so, said Giuseppe; Fortunata was just on loan. Seven times, Giuseppedrove to his father's to reclaim Fortunata. Seven times Carmelo went to his son's to retrieve her, paying Giuseppe $36 per retrieval. Finally, Carmelo moved to cut his losses: he took Fortunata to the town hall and married...