Word: retailers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week. Each student is self-employed; no students are employees. No student works for Southwestern; none gets "paid" by Southwestern; none has a "boss." Each student is an independent businessperson, and pays self-employment taxes. Southwestern is a publisher, supplying products at wholesale prices to these student retail businesspeople...
...managerial commission based on the quality of their management--how well the students they manage do during the summer--and on the number of students they manage in the summer. This is in addition to their working approximately 80 hours a week in the operation of their personal retail sales businesses. Again, these commissions are based on summer management...
Taping Baretta. Not in the opinion of Universal City Studios, the movie and TV show producing arm of MCA Inc., or of Walt Disney Productions. They are suing Sony, its American subsidiary, an advertising agency, a few retail stores and one Betamax owner in a federal court in California. The complaint seeks to prevent further manufacture and sale of the Betamax, and to force impounding and destruction of Betamax tapes of programs owned by the plaintiffs. Universal, which initiated the suit and invited Disney to join, argues that taping TV shows or movies violates U.S. copyright law, even if viewers...
...first installments also single out three top figures for special treatment: Barry Goldwater; his brother Robert, a real estate developer who managed the family retail business until 1970; and Harry Rosenzweig, a close friend of the Goldwaters and longtime Republican state chairman. The report rehashed material about Barry that has been printed before. U.S. Government investigators, who pronounced Barry "clean" of criminal connections, feel that he is getting something of a bum rap. Over the years, it has been reported that he occasionally palled around with gangsters on golf courses or in gambling casinos, and he once intervened...
Elsewhere, householders have been hit by a double whammy. They must burn more fuel-as much as 23% more in the case of oil-to keep away the chill. And prices are rising, even though domestic oil and natural gas are still under federal control. Retail fuel-oil prices are up about 10% from a year ago. One reason: dealers can raise prices to cover the costs of importing foreign oil-and the U.S. is now getting a record 44% of its petroleum from abroad. The Federal Power Commission last year allowed the top price of natural gas piped across...