Word: shopping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Malaysia landed in Des Moines, but their expressions of joy and hope were much like those of the Soviet Jews. Tran Qui Son, 26, had fled Viet Nam by boat with his wife and two young sons after the Communist regime had forced him to close his appliance repair shop. They floated to Malaysia, where they huddled with 60,000 other refugees awaiting a new home. Said he: "In my country I could no longer care for my family. Here it will be different." The day after he arrived, he was able to find, with the help of his sponsors...
After a quick huddle with Mayor Leon Larisey, Gravelin announced that Cloud Lake would stand on principle and refuse the federal aid. Said Wendy Hallgren, owner of a pottery shop: "There's enough government waste without us adding to it. We're honest, God-fearing people. We're not going to take a handout for a disaster that we never had." So Washington will have to find some other way of spending the relief earmarked for Cloud Lake...
...expenses vary. The price control formula permits dealers to offset the cost of gasoline, the rent on their gas stations, the wages of their employees and other overhead expenses, and still earn a profit. For competitive reasons, dealers normally sell at somewhat less than their maximum allowable prices; drivers shop around for the best prices when supplies are ample. But when a small surplus of oil turns into a modest shortage, companies are forced to cut back on gasoline shipments, and that lets retailers raise their prices right up to the federal ceilings...
...tube-just as newspapers and weekly TV magazines are now starting to list cable offerings. Also, though there is much dispute when cable started, 1949 may have been the year of its birth. One version is that Robert J. Tarlton, owner of a radio and TV repair shop in Lansford, Pa., could sell few TV sets because a mountain outside town blocked signals coming in from Philadelphia, 65 miles away...
...whole host of class-based divisions--ranging from the most trivial policies like separate eating places for management and labor, to a refusal to allow any German-style worker-director or incentive-involvement schemes--is largely responsible for Britain's appalling labor relations, and not the so-called leftist shop stewards that the Tory press loves to attack. If the Tories go for the easy option of making the unions scapegoats, they risk a confrontation besides which the miners' strike of 1974 (which brought down the Health government) and the disruptions of last winter will seem like tea-parties...