Word: priced
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After the bargaining stage, the patient generally sinks into a profound depression. This stage, the author believes, has a positive side. The patient is weighing the fearful price of death, preparing himself to accept the loss of everything and everyone he loves...
Book Bag Kid. "It's not what's there that counts," says Raymond Price, a former editorial writer for the New York Herald Tribune and one of Nixon's speechwriters. "The response is to the image, not to the man." This, to McGinniss, became the credo of the Nixon TV campaign. "It was as if they were building not a President but an Astrodome, where the wind would never blow, the temperature never rise or fall, and the ball never bounce erratically on the artificial grass...
...designed to convert any standard TV set into a home movie projector and screen. When perfected, the SV converter will be able to play movies, operas, lessons-or even deliver an audio-visual TV magazine. RCA hopes to begin marketing the first SV adapters in 1972 for a retail price of "under $400." Six-inch cartridges, providing a half-hour of color programming, would initially cost about $10 apiece but could be rented for far less...
...frustrating struggle against inflation, the Nixon Administration has relied almost entirely on classic, conservative weapons. The Government has severely constricted the supply of money and restricted its own spending. Most economists agree that this is the proper course. But the stubborn persistence of price increases is straining the patience of consumers, labor leaders, businessmen and members of Congress. With increasing urgency, critics are demanding that Nixon "do something"-that is, something more. They propose wholesale slashes in the federal budget, a return to wage and price guidelines, or even severe wartime controls...
...public is not impressed with that sort of optimism. There is usually a distressing lag between the time an anti-inflationary policy is adopted and the time when prices actually start to level off. Economists figure that it takes six to nine months for tight-money policies to slow down an overly accelerated economy, which is what is happening now. After that, still another three to six months generally pass before price increases start to lade. By this reckoning, the Administration will do well if it manages to reduce today's 6%-a-year price inflation to something approaching...