Word: priced
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With some luck, Wilson may be able to buy back public confidence before he faces the voters again. The price may well be continued antagonism of the unions. But just as U.S. unions have a way of quarreling with the Democratic Party and then supporting it at the polls, British labor may well close ranks. "When it comes to the crunch," said a T.U.C. official, "we'll all stand together." Even if that forecast is correct, there is no indication where the rest of the country will stand...
General Motors, the acknowledged pacesetter in auto prices, announced the largest increases in more than a decade. The window-sticker price of the average G.M. car will go up 3.9%, from $3,070 on 1969 models to $3,189 on the 1970 line. The company called the rise "modest" in view of much larger increases in the cost of labor and many materials. G.M. said that $38 of the $119 rise was for improved equipment, such as glass-fiber-reinforced tires, larger engines and disk brakes...
...come to be called the City's "housing crisis." The crux of the problem is simple: Cambridge's housing stock is not large enough to accommodate all the people who want to live in the City. Generally more affluent than the older residents, the newcomers have bid up the price of housing...
...compared to $15,282,000 two years ago), expenses have risen at a faster rate. Marginality has finally caught up with the Coop. For years the Coop had endeavored to give in a sense a double discount. Besides the patronage refund, the Coop has always made a point of pricing as low as or lower than its competition. In fact, the Coop was founded in 1882 for the very purpose of giving undergraduates a store in the Square that priced below the monopoly prices of the other merchants. "We make every effort to price as low as anybody we regard...
...arrival of the discount house in the last ten years has really put us in a squeeze." Brown admits. "We have always tried to price as low as anyone, but now that low is relatively much lower than before. In order to get a dividend, the Coop must cut corners wherever it can. The rebate has to come from somewhere if it doesn't come from higher prices. You can't have a superlative store and fixturing. $5-an-hour sales people, maintain discount prices, provide a lot of service in the form of special orders and still expect...