Word: retailers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because Harvard purchases in large amounts, it would be able to buy toilet paper at wholesale prices or even less, while individual students must pay inflated Cambridge retail prices. Thus your two dollars buys more when you give it to the University to spend for you. Also, a $2-$4 increase in term bill will lose significance in the face of the seemingly inevitable $500 increases which roll along every year. Additionally, it is much more convenient to procure toilet paper from a House store-room than to have to run to a distant supermarket when one is in need...
...controversy and, like Claybrook, works twelve hours a day. She is aggressive and serious, as could be expected of a woman who once lobbied for Planned Parenthood while in a visibly advanced stage of pregnancy. The mother of two children, Foreman is married to a vice president of the retail clerks union. She looks more like an editor of a fashion magazine than a tough Government regulator, and she strikes visitors as calm and relaxed. Soft, gentle music plays in her office because, she says, "it calms the wild beasts who are in here all the time...
That is reason enough to shun most of the ostentatious or shallow works that are beginning to decorate the retail shelves. Still, this and every year, a few volumes speak in the future indicative...
According to Agent King's testimony, hundreds of thousands of dollars were funneled to the fugitive by Laverne Bowden, president of Fidelity Equipment Leasing Corp., the Atlanta holding company for Thevis' pornographic distribution firms and retail outlets. King testified that Thevis' father George was seen carrying paper bags and manila envelopes stuffed with cash from the Fidelity offices. Before his elimination, Underbill deposited large sums of money in a Bahamian bank account. Thevis then borrowed money from the bank. An attorney placed shares of AT&T worth $297,000 in a trust in Thevis' name...
...bank, meanwhile, has recovered about $2 million of its money and will probably sell the diamonds, valued on the retail market at $13 million. Result: the bank stands to make nearly a $5 million profit from the heist...