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...Brink. It describes the aftermath of an OPEC price increase to the then incredible level of $38 per bbl. The populist Federal Reserve chairman decides to help the President, plagued with 25% inflation, by printing money night and day. The result: Coca-Cola sells for $1,350 a sixpack, short cab rides cost $6,000 and wheat is $5 million a bushel. Soon violent rioting breaks out, and thousands die. In both history and fiction, the first step in any government's cure for hyperinflation is to convince the people that it is serious about taking the necessary steps...
...sixpack, Mr. Average American. As of last week-May 4, to be exact-you started working for yourself instead of the Government. By the reckoning of Tax Foundation, Inc., the average wage earner on an eight-hour day had to work four months and four days this year just to pay his federal, state and local taxes. Figured on a daily basis, the tax bite seems no less painful: for two hours and 42 minutes of Mr. Average's day, he labors for those who serve...
...does apparently send the average guy. The question is: How long is it before the average guy starts thinking he's being manipulated?" Yet so far, as Dartmouth Government Professor Laurence I. Radway put it, "turning down the heat and doing away with imperial frills" has made "Joe Sixpack satisfied and pleased with Carter...
...combination Deli/Sub-shop/Bar-and-Grille, but there wasn't anybody upstairs so I went downstairs to the bar and asked if I could get something to eat. The bartender said everything was closed, even though somebody just got a drink from him. So I went back upstairs and took a sixpack of Pepsi from behind the counter. I hid it in the bushes, went past about five honky marriage chapels and brought some food at a 24-hour supermarket...
...screen. Until a court made him stop, Frederick Amon, 24, used to drive a refrigerated truckload every week from Denver to Charlotte, N.C., where he sold it to restaurants and country clubs for as much as $1 a can, better than triple the retail price of about $1.50 a sixpack...