Word: regulars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...items are sold by "distributors," who are in effect door-to-door salespeople and earn a 30% profit on volume. Usually people with other jobs, they join Amway for extra income. They buy their wares from higher-level "direct distributors," who also sell door to door. Regular distributors are urged to become direct distributors themselves, and they do so by recruiting, training and supervising new salespeople. Though the direct distributor is not paid for signing up these recruits, he does make additional money by selling Amway products at a slight mark up to the distributors under him. To keep sales...
...hospital, they are very expensive services to run. The intensive care unit accounts for about 15% of all hospital costs. Coronary care units may charge $400 to $500 a day. Yet, say some doctors, no one is sure whether survival rates are higher than would occur with care in regular hospital beds. Some physicians are also concerned that the bright lights, alarms and lack of privacy can frighten patients, impeding recovery or even precipitating fatal heart attacks. In neonatal centers, the infants are usually preemies and may require months, even years, of care before they are well enough...
These services are provided by the institution and not by individuals out of necessity; as you say, "universities must make collective decisions to carry out regular activities." Individuals can only express their choice to boycott through the institution's decisions. We must therefore ask Harvard to take some form of initiative in this area...
...other factors aggravate the gasoline situation. One is that antipollution regulations require all cars built in the 1975 model year or later to use unleaded gas. A refinery needs 5% to 10% more crude to turn out a gallon of leadfree as opposed to regular gas. More important, stocks of heating oil have dropped dangerously (4.6% below the "minimum acceptable level" for May). Refineries would ordinarily be starting all-out production of gasoline now, to supply the summer driving surge, but the Carter Administration is urging them instead to switch as much output as possible to heating oil, in order...
...encouraged them to use their skills to ride opponents off the puck. The result: a distinctive new Ranger style that blends a swarming defense with tightly organized rushes up ice. Against the Islanders, the Shero system worked well enough to stop the team with the league's best regular season record, and all without benefit of a single mugging. Proclaims Esposito: "I knew this team had potential. I knew it last year. The changes in coaching and management brought...