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...audiophile who is determined to spend your summer paycheck--$300 to $1500--on a complete component system, then shopping for a stereo can be a tormenting experience. The first thing to realize is that, unless you're a physics major, you know nothing about the electronic workings of the systems you look at. Advertisers and salesmen will come at you with "the 400-millisecond miracle," "reverberent field dominant," and "silver-lined circuitry." Don't worry if you don't understand these terms; you're not supposed to. The companies are preying upon you technical ignorance and attempting to dazzle...
...ombudsperson for both women and men employees of MIT. "The greatest problem we have the abysmal lack of feedback between secretary and supervisor," she asserted. The supervisor, who is supposed to meet with secretaries every six months to hear complaints, "does no more than leave her week's paycheck on the desk and leave," she said...
Billy Sherrill has performed the same kind of wonders for more than 30 country-style singers, including such other stars as Johnny Duncan, Tanya Tucker and Johnny Paycheck. In all, he has more than 50 No. 1 hits to his credit. Nowadays, a week rarely passes without a couple of Sherrill-produced records among the top ten. Last week, for example, there were The Midnight Oil with Barbara Mandrell (7) and We're Gonna Hold On with George Jones and Tammy Wynette (8). Little wonder, then, that many people who once spoke of the Nashville Sound have begun referring...
...nonfood prices are zooming too. As many as 50% of the families in some suburbs around Stockholm have had to seek special state aid to pay leaping rents. Auto traffic in Barcelona and Madrid now thins noticeably during the last week of each month, because until the next monthly paycheck arrives many Spanish motorists are too broke to buy gasoline at 52? a gallon, up 25% in two years...
...francs before making the purchase-apparently out of genuine concern that the dollar's price in francs would drop by the minute. A G.I. stationed in West Germany moaned that he could not even accurately budget big outlays like his monthly rent, since the portion of his dollar paycheck needed to cover his mark rental bill has expanded painfully in every recent month...