Word: tags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make money, not cars." The former head of General Motors discovered that he could make money by transforming cars from transportation vehicles into emotional symbols. Solan added diversity to the showroom, psychological lures to the sales pitch, status to the concept of auto travel, and price to the price tag. The public is only now beginning to realize how it has been cheated psychologically. This memory will not fade quickly...
...example, a miner's day begins at the bathhouse, a big stark room with showers. Miners' work pants, boots, jackets and gloves are in buckets hung from the high ceiling on ropes that look like stalactites. After changing, the men hang their numbered brass tags on a board at the mine entrance; a tag that is still there after the shift ends alerts the rest of the crew that a miner is missing...
...just about every sport or hobby the loved one may want to learn -from skiing to swimming, bronc busting to piano playing. Prudently, perhaps, the company does not offer courses in poetry, philosophy, painting or other such pastures to which it might be difficult to attach a price tag-or a buyer...
...know exactly what a Conservative government would be like," said Wilson, "whether they succeed in various invitations to Mr. Rag, Mr. Tag and the Marquess of Bobtail...
...Augustine Indians built for themselves under his supervision. To make up for lost time, he performs continuous masses, weddings and baptisms--all in Algonquian, the language spoken by the tribes of the sub-Arctic cultural area south and east of the Hudson Bay. Children eat potato chips and play tag in the aisle, baptismal water appears in a peanut butter jar, and everyone, scratching incessantly, squashes blackflies that gather at the window panes. At the wedding of the cheif's son, he and his bride sat in armchairs in front of the altar while wild dogs wandered...