Word: switches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOHN BRYANT fought through the fuzz of last night's sleeping pill as the 7 a.m. newsman, activated by the clock-radio, flicked through the details of yesterday's muggings, liquor-store holdups and sniper attacks. John groped for the light switch-and inadvertently brushed against the "panic button" on the $700 Tel-Guard alarm console connected to his telephone. Obediently, the system silently dialed the operator and automatically began repeating a recorded message: "Emergency at 250 Lincoln Street. Emergency at 250 Lincoln Street...
Changing that psychology is Washington's most difficult economic task ahead. Some consumers and businessmen continue to pay sky-high prices for goods in the self-fulfilling expectation that prices are destined to rise higher still. Investors switch their money out of fixed-yield bonds and into stocks, which are a better hedge against inflation partly because buyers think that they are. Inflation has contributed to both the stock market overspeculation and Wall Street's glut of back-office paperwork. * Because of rampant inflation, unions increasingly demand unlimited cost-of-living wage increases instead of limited boosts. Complains...
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Although France adopted the value-added tax in 1954, the U.S. grew seriously concerned only after the entire Common Market decided to copy it. When Germany made the switch to VAT last year, one immediate effect was a 2% drop in the export price of steel, machinery and other goods. The Netherlands introduced VAT Jan. 1 with similar results. Denmark and Sweden have joined the rush; Norway, Belgium and Italy will do so next Jan. 1, and Britain is considering...
...salute with my left hand. I long ago learned to use right-handed scissors with ease. At dinners, when seated next to a righthander, I automatically keep my left elbow close to my side when eating to avoid bumps-and when things are too close at a table, I switch to eating with my right hand, another trick I taught myself long...