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...GIRL-GETTERS. Bird hunters fill their quota at a sleazy English seaside resort, where one young beachnik (Oliver Reed) shows a singular flair for wasting his youth...
...pleased that he published the story under his own pen name: Willy. In a month, Claudine at School was a bawdy bestseller-Henri was so pleased that he locked her in her room every morning and refused to let her out until she had written her daily quota. In this manner she produced three sequels to Claudine and made her husband famous-Henri was so pleased that he put an end to the marriage...
...automatic, dealers can anticipate it by several weeks, and pass on some of the savings to buyers. The best time to buy a car, therefore, is shortly before a model change. >Manufacturers frequently run dealer contests, offering the dealers $25 to $50 rebates on cars sold over a certain quota. Contests are not announced publicly, but ads for "value days" or license-plate raffles are tipoffs to dealer contests that can mean better bargains for buyers. > When a customer arranges new-car credit through his dealer, the lending institution usually rebates part of the finance charges on the car back...
...like "second-class citizens," and a number have resigned. One of those quitting in protest, English Teacher Richard C. Vitzthum, 29, accused the academy of treating its "civilian faculty as a commodity which it has bought like provisions for the mess hall." Paradoxically, despite the protection of the flunk quota, overall attrition is high: 35% of the average freshman class of 1,300 drops out by graduation. One reason is the hazing that "plebes" (freshmen) and "youngsters" (sophomores) get, which many regard as anachronistic...
Once such joint ventures are arranged, the Indian government protects them against foreign imports by high tariffs and quota restrictions. Says Charat Ram, 49, whose combine of sewing-machine, refrigerator, air-compressor, textile, and chemical companies makes him India's eighth largest manufacturer: "You cannot make a loss unless you are an utter fool. We are absolutely in a seller's market...