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...authors even have a word of caution about the professional-looking service managers who greet drivers at the entrance to the service department of auto dealerships: they are often paid by commission and thus have powerful incentive to recommend unneeded repairs. If their persuasive salesmanship fails, they sometimes tack on unauthorized replacement orders. Many garages also make use of "flat-rate manuals" that list labor charges based on highly inflated estimates of the time it takes to do each job. If the repairs are finished in half the stipulated time, the fee remains the same-and the garage may hold...
...endeavor" on the part of each state for equal representation of men and women; no abridgment of the right to participate for reasons of "race, sex, religion, age, color or national origin"; and provision of state committee funds to defray a delegate's expenses. Percy, pursuing a different tack, is trying to change the current delegate "bonus" system, arguing that it enables small states to swing more weight relative to their size than large states...
...policies. He favored wage controls and a more strenuous fight against inflation, and he opposed Heath's policy of direct confrontation with organized labor. But in public he staunchly supported the Prime Minister. Ironically, his resignation came at a time when Heath is being forced by events to tack in the direction of Maudling's line on those issues...
...trashers were at it again later the same day when a group of about 500 people marched from Boston and, after eluding Cambridge police, sabotaged a stretch of railroad tracks near MIT and battled police for several hours in the heaviest tear-gasing of the Spring. Taking a different tack, 150 students left for Washington May 13 to attempt to pressure certain swing Congressmen to support legislation...
...trashers were at it again later the same day when a group of about 500 people marched from Boston and, after eluding Cambridge police, sabotaged a stretch of railroad tracks near MIT and battled police for several hours in the heaviest tear-gasing of the Spring. Taking a different tack, 150 students left for Washington May 13 to attempt to pressure certain swing Congressmen to support legislation...