Word: price
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...gets found out and lands in Paris with a new sugar daddy and a stud chauffeur). These guys and dolls could dish it out and just as surely take it. Even glamour types felt the sting of the Depression. In Blonde Venus, Marlene Dietrich sells her virtue for the price of a meal for herself and her child: 85[cents...
...benefited from the nearly demonic devotion of one of their country's leading companies, Nokia, to cell-phone technology. Once a clunky national conglomerate, Nokia is the world leader in cell phones, and last year sold $9.5 billion worth. So far this year sales are up 50%; the stock price is up 40%, to about...
...Benenson, who is the world's leading expert in most things, called me over the weekend. "I just got a new Palm IIIe," he bragged, referring to the popular pocket-size digital organizer. He was particularly pleased with the price ($229). I waited, for cruel effect, then asked, "Is it too late to return it?" I am such a blowhard...
GRAVE GRIFTERS A third of Americans over 50 have prepaid part of their burial expenses. Yet many are victims of deceptive funeral-home practices, according to a new AARP report. Despite laws requiring written price lists, 32% of customers were not offered one, and 29% were misinformed about features, such as the claim that casket liners pre-serve a body. AARP is calling for stricter regulation and the creation of fraud-recovery funds...
NATO may yet pay a heavy price for its failure to rein in militant ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Albanian demonstrators Tuesday continued their human blockade to stop Russian troops, authorized by the NATO-led peacekeeping mission, from taking control of the town of Orahovac. Tensions in the province reached boiling point Monday as local Kosovar Albanians charged that Russian mercenaries had participated in Serb atrocities during the war, and barred their entry to the town. "For weeks now Russian forces have been taking hits from Albanian snipers, while the Russians believe NATO is doing very little to stop the perpetrators...