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Because of an agreement reached in July to increase payments for farmers' crops, Poles will have to shell out as much as $1.72 billion more at the grocery counter to recoup the expenditure beginning next Jan. 1. The authorities have proposed three schemes that would each produce the same total revenue but would differ in how much individual prices are raised. In a rare bow to customer preference, Poles are permitted to vote for the plan they dislike the least by calling special telephone numbers at government offices and television stations...
...recoup, Osborne has designed a version of its new Executive model that will run IBM programs. But getting the machine to market has not been easy. When news of the Executive leaked last spring, sales of the firm's original machine, the Osborne 1, slowed even as the company was dropping the price from $1,795 to $1,295, and profits evaporated. With the IBM-compatible Executive now due in November, the ever confident Osborne says, "It's such a fast-moving business that in two months you can be flying as high as ever." Others wonder whether...
...June when stocks were at their highest. If the total seems breathtaking, it must be measured against the fact that a decade and more of inflation had so seriously eroded stock values that for many investors, the bull market's gains enabled them to do little more than recoup losses. Just to keep up with inflation, the record 1051 Dow should have stood at 2445 by November...
Chances appear slim that investors stuck with Whoops 4 and 5 bonds will ever recoup their losses. Says Bettie Fullmer: "The only people who are going to make money are the lawyers." Many victims have already sold the securities at a tiny fraction of their face value to speculators, some of whom are betting that the Government will eventually bail out Whoops, giving them a big profit...
...putt for a birdie; at the second, a 4-wood within 15 ft., an eagle; at the fourth, a 2-iron that scarcely missed being a hole in one. Starting one shot behind Stadler and Floyd, he now led the tournament by three. Watson's game plan to recoup two strokes against the leaders had been to shoot 34 on the front nine, which is exactly what he did, only to fall four behind Ballesteros...