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Penalizing pint-size accounts

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Back to Piggies | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

...revenues, North Sea oil taxes were hiked 10% for oil companies, adding to the $1.1 billion already gushing into the treasury's coffers as high-grade crude comes fully onstream. Alas for the ordinary Briton, new excise taxes raised the price of his beloved beer (to 95? a pint from 91?) as well as those of wine, whisky, cigarettes, automobiles and gasoline, which costs $2.42 per gal., up from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Mean Budget | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

...students picketed in the morning, held a prayer service at noon, and then two students, Paul E. Lyons and Thomas Reed, spilled ashes and pint bottles of their own blood on the door of the office where the TRW recruiters were conducting job interviews...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Cornell Students Protest Recruiter | 3/21/1980 | See Source »

...talk of boycotting Soviet spirits, however, there is not much evidence that sales are seriously falling. Some retailers claim that they are selling even more Stolichnaya by the case to hoarders who fear a permanent cutoff, or by the pint to those who dare not use it for entertaining. Ironically, one merchant noted that a brand left on the shelf in his store was Smirnoff, a domestic vodka distributed by Heublein. Says he: "People think it is Russian and they are refusing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Grain Waves | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

Folk Singer Joan Baez sang Oh Freedom. Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin led a rousing chorus of We Shall Overcome. Elie Wiesel, author of many books on the Holocaust, recited Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead. Actress Liv Ullmann gave a pint of blood for Cambodian refugees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: The Fancies and the Fact | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

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