Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slide rule to make her point that every shopper needs one, the "guardian of the gullible," as Mrs. Peterson styles herself, invades supermarkets throughout the nation to document such casuistic come-ons as the "jumbo quart" (exact volume unspecified), the "25?-off" special (off what?), and the "all-new" product (only the price is). Among her particular bêtes noires are the "giant-size" box that contains more air than substance and the practice of pricing by fractions, whih forces the consumer to decide between, say, a 1-lb. 4½-oz. can of pineapple chunks...
...Simple Information." Last week the Senate Commerce Committee had nearly completed its study of a "truth-in-packaging" bill that would 1) require "simple, direct, accurate and visible information" on each container about the product's nature and quantity, 2) prohibit use of "deceptively shaped boxes, misleading pictures, confusing or meaningless adjectives, inappropriate size or quantity markings," 3) outlaw promotional devices "that promise nonexistent savings," and 4) institute "reasonable and appropriate weight standards to facilitate comparative shopping." Though pigeonholed since 1963, the bill is given a good chance of passage in an election year...
Matter of Conscience. The Index is a product of the Council of Trent's counter-reforming zeal to protect Catholics against Protestant error. The first Index was published in 1559; it gradually grew into an impressive reader's non-guide to literature that might endanger faith or morals. By the 18th century, it was something of a sign of excellence to be listed; among the condemned classics of the Index are Montaigne's Essays, Gibbon's Decline and Fall, and the works of Descartes, Hume, Hobbes and Voltaire...
...Democrats incensed at the Administration's support of civil rights. Nor were Republican officials made any happier last week by a penetrating analysis of its dilemma in Dixie prepared by two liberal groups, the nationally organized Republicans for Progress and the Yale-based Republican Advance. Their report, a product of a state-by-state survey, warned that G.O.P. organizations in Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina are "lily-white," and described party support for segregationist candidates as "sheer madness...
...make 5¾% FHA loans at all is to pay them a 5?; penalty on every borrowed dollar. Though FHA theoretically prohibits builders from passing that 5% "discount" on to home buyers, the industry has long since learned how to hide such costs in the sale price of its product. In the sale of existing homes under FHA, the "discount" inflates prices almost automatically because the seller must absorb the entire amount...