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...member but want supercheap Net access, WebTV's $100 classic model plus a $20 monthly fee is a bargain. The price doesn't include the optional (but highly desirable) wireless keyboard or access to the interactive-TV features, but it gives newbies a cheap way to dip their toes in cyberspace...
...commission-free stock trading. As if all this other great stuff weren't reason enough to plop down your hard-earned bucks for shares of Snapple, up fivefold in the past 10 months, or Callaway Golf, up fourfold, now there are several ways to play the game on the supercheap. Stocks have become expensive, but the cost of buying them has come way down. It's kind of like the free helicopter to the airport Pan Am used to provide when you bought a $4,000 first-class ticket. A bargain...
...away, the basic technology is in existence. Such painless, productive awakenings will in time be as familiar as Dagwood Bumstead's pajamaed panics. And, barring headaches, tummy aches and heartaches, the American day should proceed as smoothly as it begins. All thanks to the miracle of the microcomputer, the supercheap chip that can electronically shoulder a vast array of boring, time-consuming tasks...
Campaigning in Manila, for instance, attractive Imelda Marcos one day announced supercheap prices for chickens in four public markets; the next day she granted 10% pay raises to 10,800 street sweepers, as well as thousands of policemen, firemen and schoolteachers. Addressing the vast throng gathered at the Luneta bandstand, she promised the construction of more markets, a sports center, railway system and hospitals. "These are all in the planning stage," the First Lady explained pointedly. "They will materialize only if the national government under President Marcos continues...