Word: pricing
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...Government to disclose that it had hypnotized him. The Government must make this admission, Friendly indicated, whenever there is a "significant possibility" that it will affect the verdict. The ruling, one of the first of its kind, should help prevent abuse of hypnosis by overzealous prosecutors. "If the price of our decision should be the ultimate escape of a guilty man rather than the vindication of an innocent one," said the judge, "this is the kind of case where that price is worth paying...
...buyers, especially those who may spend anywhere from $2,000 to $8,000 for a lemon, would certainly agree. Yet the same buyers make improved quality control difficult by insisting on speed and styling at the lowest possible price. In the hot competition for customers, the need to squeeze every last dollar out of production prompts automakers to cut costs in designing their cars. An innovation that endangered 2,500,000 of the cars in last month's G.M. recall was a cam used to regulate the engine's idling speed. It was designed in plastic, which enabled...
Anxious to escape abrasive confrontations of the kind that embroiled his two immediate predecessors, Richard Nixon had hoped to avoid direct federal intervention against price increases by private industry. Yet last week the President took strong steps to arrest soaring lumber prices-and there was little grumbling. His tactics much resembled those of the Johnson Administration, which in 1965 fought off aluminum and copper price rises by threatening to release supplies of the metals from Government stockpiles. Nixon ordered the Interior and Agriculture departments to step up the sale of lumber from publicly owned forests, which contain more than half...
Barnaby is also confident in "the flock below": Bill Ball, Rick Barton, Bill Brock, Butch Kawakami, Bruce Price, and Rick Rosenthal...
...major question facing the Committee was the need for a gymnastics coach. Eric Cutler, Assistant Director of Athletics, reported that the Faculty wants to hire a coach if the gymnasts can find one for the right price. "But the Faculty is not looking for a coach," Cutler emphasized...