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...kind of street along which you promenade, admiring discreetly price-tag-less clothes, jewelry and paintings. On one side is the oldest non-profit craft cooperative in the USA, on the other the oldest guild of artists. All these places proclaim their uniqueness with the fervor of the faithful in possession of a fragment of the True Cross. And if this were Paris the artists would litter the sidewalks chronicling the scene...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Carnival Beside the Arctic Ocean | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

...guaranteed income for those who "cannot work or should not have to," and assistance in the form of "income supports" for those whose wages are too low. The estimated price tag of the program would be $40 billion to $50 billion beyond current costs, paid by the wealthier 25% to 30% of the taxpayers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: All Our Children | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...unsavory condition was followed by Publisher George Hearst Jr.'s resignation. A critical study of auto-insurance inequities contributed to a city investigation of rate structures; a look at some of the top Californians in Washington saddled doze-prone Senator S.I. Hayakawa with the possibly durable tag "the Sominex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: California's Magazine War | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

...years of U.S. control of the canal, then an annual $200 million payment. But President Carter wrote him a letter pointing out that there were political and other constraints on the amount he could get if he wanted a treaty?in other words, the higher the price tag, the lower the chances of Senate ratification. Torrijos got the message. Declaring a national holiday to commemorate the signing, Torrijos mingled regret with relief. "In truth," he said, mangling some metaphors, "the treaty is like a little pebble which we shall be able to carry in our shoe for 23 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Ceding the Canal-Slowly | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

...delegates were quartered in luxurious villas and a new ten-story hotel, and their gourmet meals were prepared by an imported battalion of chefs (one from Maxim's in Paris). The estimated price tag for the extravaganza (including the construction of a six-lane highway, a new presidential palace and the conference-theater complex) was $800 million. That is nearly 75% of Gabon's budget for 1977, in a country whose per capita gross domestic product is $2,800 -the highest in black Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Voting for the Gun Barrel | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

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