Word: profiteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...need ever pay list price for any item and no shrewd buyer should pay the marked price on any equipment costing over $200. If the dealer is charging list price, look and listen, but don't buy. His profit margin is large enough to afford a few browsers. If the displayed price is already marked down, then the trick is to appear ready to buy a system or component, but unsure about what and from whom. After a half-hour of hesitation the salesman will either drop the price or throw you out. Some other techniques that work: seem dumb...
...Robert S. Strauss unleashed an economic recovery package Friday night that received little debate and a majority on a voice vote. But interviews after the vote revealed that a good number of delegates disagreed with specific proposals to legislate national no-fault insurance and to implement mandatory wage-price-profit controls. They said they voted for the economic package, though, because the Democrats had to show the public they stood for something different from the Republicans...
Baird, who has called himself "the founder" of the abortion movement of the last decade and operates non-profit abortion clinics in Boston and New York, said last night he is challenging the law on behalf of two unnamed 17-year-old women...
Prices will continue to rise less and less controllably as long as businessmen, union leaders and consumers take it for granted that they can always count on the Government to intervene to prop up jobs, incomes and profit. Reflation now, they say, might produce a momentary upturn, but it would only lead to another round of price rises, another consumer panic, another slowdown in business investment-and a more devastating bust. They worry that...
...School alumnus and Vineyard summer resident, offered Harvard $1.1 million for the property, proposing to divide it into only 27 lots and to set aside 199 of the 320 acres as common land. Cohn's plan met with the approval of the Vineyard Open Land Foundation, a non-profit group interested in protecting the island from excessive development...