Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After two weeks' practice, Candy is reading one word a second, but expects to go as high as her Braille rate of 150 words per minute. Although the initial cost of the device may be thousands of dollars, its developers say, mass production could bring its cost down to that of "an inexpensive...
Costly Commuting. Americans transferred to Europe seem particularly disgruntled by the high price of food, appliances and other creature comforts. To be sure, U.S. prices are now rising at a 6%-a-year rate - considerably faster than prices in almost all European countries. But items that are inexpensive in the U.S. are often costly in Europe. In West Germany, some self-service laundries charge $1 to wash a load of clothing. Cantaloupes often sell for $1.75 apiece; coffee costs $1.74 a pound. Bread costs 60? a loaf in Paris, and cigarettes are 75? a pack in London. A publisher...
Brown points to a number of factors which again forced the Coop to lower its dividend rate last year. Although sales have continued to grow (they were over $16 million this year, 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...
...permanent, the other 60 per cent turn over every three months. Many students work only part-time or take a sales job to pay for holiday or seasonal expenses. Giving these short-term employees adequate training is extremely difficult. Inadequate training accounts for part of the Coop's shortage rate. Each year the Coop loses 21/2per cent of its sales-about $400,000-in shortages. These losses include not only customer and employee stealing, but also employee errors in marking and charging. If an item costs ten dollars and a salesgirl inadvertently rings it up as one dollar, the Coop...
Well, I hate to contradict old Nate right off the bat like this, but as usual, he hasn't got things quite right. A lot has changed here at Harvard since that momentous autumn when Mr. Pusey, doing his damnest to sound like a second-rate Fitzgerald narrator, first suffered unnoticed through a freshman bull session. And although the Freshman Yard, with its predominantly WASP administration, still smacks of a snobbishly genteel Harvard, the incoming freshman can rest assured that his first struggle with the Union's compost-like tapioca will not be interrupted by quick repartee at Katherine Mansfield...