Word: retail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...excellent rendezvous points. Local fishing boats and the supply boats that serve the oil and gas drilling rigs off the coast are usually used for the ferry operation because they attract no undue attention. Pinched by rising fuel prices and foreign competition, and attracted by huge potential profits (top retail value of a ton of pot is $1.6 million), some of the local shrimp fishermen are entering the business, though it remains controlled by Latin Americans and Cuban Americans...
...Department of Energy report released in January 1980 showed the price of fuel to the American consumer was rising faster than OPEC crude oil price increases--the report stated that between January 1977 and May 1979 the retail price of home heating oil has risen twice as fast as the price of crude. And, in 1980, the report predicted a typical family using home heating oil would pay an additional $130 from "unjustified" price increases...
...refined heating oil into Boston harbor, the Massachusetts state government actually delivers the oil to eligible families. Last year, using federal home energy assistance funds, the state purchased 8.4 million gallons of home heating oil from CEC for 47 cents a gallon--less than half the retail price of home heating oil. The state distributed half the oil last winter. The remaining oil will be distributed this year, and, in addition, the state plans to purchase an additional five million gallons of CEC imported heating oil for under 60 cents a gallon--45 cents less than the current retail price...
...contrast to Christmas seasons past, the spirit of "give a gift, any gift" has wilted. This year the emphasis is on what the poet Dylan Thomas, in A Child's Christmas in Wales, called "the useful presents." Electric blankets, at retail prices of anywhere from $49.50 to $185, are selling well. So too are classically styled wool and cashmere sweaters. Demand remains strong even for premium-price gifts like food processors...
David C. Sullivan, Cambridge city councilor, last night called the revised plans "a major victory" for nearby neighbors. By reducing the retail area to roughly the same size as the present Galeria complex on Boylston St., the developers will drastically cut traffic and consequently air pollution, Sullivan said...