Word: priced
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letter are several notations by the unidentified store's credit department, questioning where the sweater was actually purchased and finally deciding to settle for an $18.50 credit. The latest tidbit of Jacqueline Kennedy memorabilia is soon to be put on the block along with three similar letters (expected price: several hundred dollars apiece) by Manhattan Autograph Dealer Charles Hamilton, who will not say where he got them-except that they were "salvaged" from someone's wastebasket. One of the other letters indicates certain gaps in Jackie's well-known attention to detail: "His shoe size...
...Alice in Wonderland logic of inflation fighting, the Administration's policymakers welcomed the confrontation. They feel that a tighter economy will force lower wage settlements. President Nixon says that he wants everybody to show "backbone" in resisting inflationary wage and price increases rather than relying on White House "jawbone." General Electric, the fourth largest manufacturer in the country, is notorious among union men for its stiff take-it-or-leave-it negotiating tactics. Thus, G.E. seemed an ideal battlefield on which to Jet management and labor fight to a settlement while the Administration watched from the sidelines...
...intends to appeal, denying that the circumstances of the present strike are the same as those of nine years ago. Whatever happens in the current strike, however, G.E. can hardly lose. The day after the workers walked out,Chairman Borch told a stockholders' meeting that prices of many products will be raised as soon as the dispute is settled. The company can then pass the price of the wage package right on to the consumers...
Besides preserving the integrity of the university, peaceful demonstration and persuasion will best serve the radical cause. The NAC procest will never "stop" research on MIRV. though it may-if it gains enough power and exacts the necessary price from the university-stop MIRV research at M.I.T. The same individuals who are doing research on MIRV at M.I.T., however, can do so equally well at other institutions-ones similar to say. the Rand Corporation-where they will be free from interference from protesting students...
Mobile homes have become the nation's main source of low-priced shelter. The mobiles come with wheels and a steel chassis, but once they are placed on foundations, few are moved again. Because they are factory built and beyond the reach of cost-boosting local regulations, mobile homes are cheap (average price: $6,000), if generally small (about 700 sq. ft.) and boxy. This year some 220 companies will produce 400,000 mobile homes, double the output of the industry only two years...