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...last week began charging $2 for antipasto shared by two people, though the identical portion served to one diner remains price-frozen at $1.50. The restaurant labels the increase a "service charge." Many women are convinced that they are paying more for clothing, but "it is very difficult to pinpoint a cause for complaint," says Kitty Dobrina, a Cleveland fashion model. "Stores base the increases on changes in styles. A merchant will say that skirts are longer this year, so the price increase only reflects the cost of the extra material...
With Emanuel Ekama still testing a sore ankle, and Nourie Harrower suffering from the flu. Harvard was unable to control play at midfield. Shifting out of their short passing game, the Harvard backs tried to pinpoint individual forwards with long passes...
...Improved weather forecasting by earth satellites, for example, has saved millions of dollars in property damage and an untold number of lives by warning of dangerous storms. Other benefits are less visible: technological spin-offs from space research, which include everything from improved kitchen appliances to navigational aids with pinpoint accuracy. NASA has helped the economy directly. At its peak in 1966, NASA employed or provided jobs through its major industrial contractors for almost half a million people. Less tangible but no less significant has been the spiritual uplift provided by the spectacle of man overcoming the danger and complexities...
...general East-West détente; Arthur Goldberg subsequently scolded Brandt's U.S. critics, notably George Ball, for endangering the Ostpolitik effort, and got scolded in turn by Ball for trying to foreclose discussion of Brandt's policies. The Times became the first major paper to pinpoint an ideological split within the ranks of American conservatives when Op-Ed allowed Economist Rothbard, a onetime contributor to William Buckley's National Review, to criticize Buckley for abandoning the individualistic concept that the best government is the least government. In a subsequent solicited rebuttal, Buckley retorted that Rothbard failed...
...Boston Police Department refused to disclose how it was able to pinpoint Kilbreth's whereabouts, Kilbreth claimed, however, that on his way to the Cambridge police station, one of the arresting officers was reading an intelligence report detailing his recent activities...