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...America reversed course and arrived back at New York fewer than twelve hours after embarking. More than 250 vacationers jumped ship and were ferried by tugboat to Staten Island, where many were stranded for the rest of the night, cheered only by Lansburgh's promise of a full refund...
...before Jimmy Carter's press conference last week, Wife Rosalynn stopped by the Oval Office with some good news. An IRS audit of the Carters' federal tax returns for 1973, 1975 and 1976 showed that they owed $168.03 in back taxes for 1975 but were due a refund of $8,971.50 on the taxes they paid for 1973. Next day, the White House made public the Carters' tax return for 1977 and a statement of their current net worth. Highlights...
...settle a crinkly bag of lawsuits over illegal price fixing, Laura Scudder's Frito-Lay, Granny Goose Foods and five other manufacturers of potato chips and tortilla chips agreed to refund $3.8 million to retailers and $2.2 million to consumers in Arizona, California and Nevada. Company records listed the retailers involved, so that was no problem. But how to handle the refunds to consumers...
...respondents proved to be remarkably honest: less than 1% broke the rules by filing more than one application. Among them was a man in Fresno, Calif., who apparently thought he was entering a contest. He bought 125 newspapers, completed the forms and mailed them all in. When the refund checks went out, one was sent to him-for $6.30, far less than what he had paid for the newspapers...
...does not really keep skin free of blemishes. Last week it got Boone to sign a consent order in which he promised not only to stop appearing in the ads but to pay about 2.5% of any money that the FTC or the courts might eventually order Karr to refund to consumers. Boone said through a lawyer that his daughters actually did use Acne-Statin, and that he was "dismayed to learn that the product's efficacy had not been scientifically established as he believed...