Word: save
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...using old doors for stretchers, broken broomsticks for splints and ripped-up sheets to bind up wounds until ambulances arrived to rush the victims to Sligo General Hospital. Both Mountbatten's grandson Nicholas and the Maxwell youth had been killed in the blast. After a nightlong struggle to save her life, the Dowager Lady Brabourne died the next morning...
Instead the network has plunked Brogan down in a household of bland orphans and demanded that he clown around like Mork to keep the show flying. That is not Brogan's talent, but then this sitcom is so badly written even Williams would not be able to save it. Opposite CBS's 60 Minutes, Blue should be put out of its misery very soon. ABC owes this series' misused star another shot...
...index of how financially pressed Americans feel is the popularity of grocery coupons, those little pieces of paper snipped from product labels or newspaper ads that housewives have long used to save nickels and dimes at the check-out counter. By the Agriculture Department's reckoning, coupons are used at least occasionally in 80% of American households, up from 58% in 1971. Nonetheless, only one coupon in ten is ever redeemed at a store, and there is at least one determined bargain hunter who believes that consumers do not realize the full potential of these freebies. She is Susan...
Samtur insists that she never buys something she will not use just to get a coupon or a rebate. Says she: "That would defeat the whole purpose of the system, which is to save money." She takes pride in the fact that when her son goes to the beach, he is outfitted with slippers, beach bag, towel and hat, all free from the makers of Glad bags, a T shirt from Campbell Soup, a Raggedy Andy toy from Crest and a wagon from Viva paper towels. Only his bathing suit was paid for, and it, of course, was on sale...
...Wolfgang Baumann, 29, and his wife Renate, 26, a clerk and a secretary who live in a pleasant, suburban Bonn apartment, earn a combined gross salary of $2,500 a month. Taxes take nearly $1,000 of that, and they manage to save only about $100 a month. But they have a six-year-old BMW, holiday abroad every year and are preparing to move to another apartment. When they do, the moving and redecorating will be done cheaply by "friends" from the black labor market. Says Wolfgang: "We have no complaints. Life has been very comfortable...