Word: stickered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shift in taste is that the public has got over its fear of gas shortages, become inured to pump prices of more than 50? per gal., and is willing to spend a bit more for a larger car. In any case, the decline of the subcompacts, which usually carry sticker prices of $2,900 to $3,400, is striking: from 10% of the market just after the embargo to 7.7% now. While inventories of most other cars are sufficient to supply only 60 days of sales, dealers have a 100-day supply of Ford Pintos and even bigger pile...
...runs a sticker, barely legible in tiny print, fixed below an owl's nest in one of Joseph Cornell's boxes. Who could doubt that the white owl staring from its cave of bark is the artist himself, or that the mock prospectus is a kind of manifesto...
...Manufacturers cite their low cost (often as little as $3) and their compatibility with jeans. Others look beyond pragmatism. "It's a more graphic way of displaying your feelings," says Larry Farrell, a student at the University of California at Berkeley. "It's better than a bumper sticker." Georgia State University Sophomore Jay Jay Brooks has an easy rationale for her T shirt, which as seen from the front is purple on one side and brown on the other. Says she: "I wear it when I'm feeling ambiguous." Alan Dundes, an anthropologist at Berkeley, may have...
...first three regulations that manufacturers or retailers must abide by if they offer full warranties for products costing $15 or more. The proposal that is still subject to change is aimed at the used-car business. Among other things, the FTC would require dealers to affix a sticker on each car that they sell. The sticker would have to reveal the car's prior use, private or commercial, and a description of any major work that the dealer had done...
...bumper sticker on a doctor's Cadillac in Beverly Hills last week read...