Word: retailers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cambridge resident groups and many businessmen still favor the runner-up proposal of the Cambridge Carbarn Company, which includes only one-fifth the retail space the Carpenter plan envisions. Residents contacted last week said they fear that the Carpenter plan would generate a marked increase in traffic around the area...
...retail price of sugar in the U.S. has careened between 17? and 63? per lb. during the past four years, a statistic well known to the often riled housewife. It is the cost at the supermarket that makes the headlines. But behind those prices can be multimillion-dollar battles between commercial and political rivals that escape public notoriety. And in this case there are. The very bitterness of the sugar-pricing controversy can be seen in one of the last official acts by the late Senator Hubert Humphrey, who in a statement accused the Carter Administration of "bungling and ineptitude...
...nearly 85% of the industry's production is winding up in the retail market, mostly in the form of TV games, digital watches and calculators. Though products like these are giving the chip makers the sales volume needed to boost output and cut prices, they are hardly a durable base for a high-technology industry. For long-term growth, the chip makers are looking toward four key areas with huge potential...
...with the dialogue he has bugged, all he needs is an unobstructed view of his target, a little quiet, and either a Starlight Viewer with a camera adapter or an Intensifier Camera, both made by Law Enforcement Associates, Inc., a New Jersey electronics firm. Compact handheld devices, they retail for about $3,000 and can be operated along with earphones and a parabolic reflector or "dish" that can pick up normal speech up to 800 yds. away in an open space or in a room across a noisy street. The Starlight Viewer amplifies light 50,000 times and is perfect...
Gutmann believes that no more than one-quarter of the underground G.N.P. is attributable to organized crime. The rest, he writes, is largely traceable to such cash-oriented businesses as restaurants, garages and small retail shops, to youths doing part-time chores for pin money, and to the employment of illegal aliens and retired people who also collect Social Security checks. Ultimately, Gutmann feels, the subterranean economy, like black markets around the world, was created by the nation's cobweb of employment restrictions and tax rules. Coupled with a new-morality spirit of what he calls "selective obedience...