Word: thrift
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...prescription drugs now being sold annually in the U.S. Prices in the same community may vary by as much as 1,000% from one drugstore to the next. But since 29 states have statutes or regulations restricting pharmacists from advertising prescription-drug prices, about the only recourse the thrift-conscious purchaser had was to trudge from store to store...
...40th District in Pittsburgh, where the collars are whiter and the houses larger, Charles Kolling Jr., 25, an assistant buyer for the Thrift Drug chain, is having a ball. Says he: "I've always wanted to get involved, and after '72 I was looking for a candidate I could trust, someone who would really turn us on. And I found...
...President William Luneburg, "and anybody who says he fully understands it is crazy." A vice president of another auto company reports on a meeting with officials of two major ad agencies: "Six months ago, they told us what to do: advertise gas economy, small size; advertise American, no-nonsense thrift. And who gets the action? Chrysler Cordoba and Volare-foreign names, foreign actors on the TV screen, 'Corinthian leather,' the look of 'elegance.' I asked the admen 'What the hell is this all about?' They could not explain...
...will try to persuade the House Rules Committee not to report it out for a floor vote. A.B.A. President J. Rex Duwe, who will testify before the House Banking Committee this week, calls the bill "a totally abhorrent attempt to disguise a laundry list of new powers for thrift institutions and credit unions under the label of financial reform...
Even so, the bill or something close to it now seems to have a genuine chance of enactment. The Ford Administration, though it has qualms about the regulatory provisions, supports the idea of allowing thrift institutions to offer services now reserved to commercial banks...