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...most painless places to live are those where the rise in prices has been more than matched by the rise in incomes. It takes a Chicagoan just 75¼ hours to earn enough to buy the survey's basket of goods and services. For the same items, a Londoner must work twice as long. Prices for a great many things are simply lower in the U.S. than they are elsewhere. For instance, a cartful of 39 supermarket items that costs $135 in Los Angeles and $172 in New York sells for $225 in Zurich and an appalling...
...please most of the voters most of the time by avoiding the difficult choices among defense and social priorities. By trying to have both, it is likely to ensure only higher prices and lower growth. During the twelve years that inflation has been building up, Presidents have looked for painless, quick solutions that would get them past the next election. Carter now anticipates that national attention will remain focused on foreign concerns and off inflation. Says Economist Okun: "The President is running for re-election as military Commander in Chief. He has good reason to hope that nobody pays much...
There is nothing ennobling about death by starvation. It is neither quick nor painless. A starving person wastes away, literally consuming himself in the process. In a desperate quest for sustenance, many of the Cambodian refugees report, they were reduced to eating leaves or gnawing on the bark of trees. Neither contains remotely enough of the three major fuels that provide a body with energy: carbohydrates, proteins and fats...
...show like this is a painless way for singers to exercise their talents and for students to spend an evening. As long as Brel and its fellow revues can continue to draw audiences, there's no harm in them. But it's hardly unreasonable to demand more--more thought behind the singing, and more ambition in their choice of material...
Imperial, which is Britain's sixth largest corporation, with earnings of $276.5 million on sales of $7.71 billion in the past fiscal year, first flourished in tobacco and now operates 5,500 pubs and 30 hotels. It has long been seeking a sizable U.S.beachhead. Buying one is relatively painless because the rising pound (it has climbed in value from $ 1.70 to $2.20 in the past two years) has cut the price of U.S. properties. Though Howard Johnson's management will stay on, the firm is expected to be more aggressive in marketing and expanding, notably on the tight...