Word: wafers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...July 31 were almost $1.2 billion-virtually unchanged from 1966-with Korvette's accounting for $600 million of the total (excluding supermarkets). Spartans' earnings slipped slightly, to a slender $7,100,000. Instead of continued expansion, Bassine's most pressing task is to do something about wafer-thin profit margins at existing stores. It is significant that along with Korvette Herald Square, he has added only one other store...
...effect was breathtaking. Out strode the model, clothed in nothing but wafer-thin plastic disks, each glinting with dazzling sun colors (hot orange, pink) and hung together with fine wires...
...today's one-story, "open-plan" efficiency home, bedrooms abut on "family rooms," kitchens spill over into dining areas, and walls are wafer 'thin - affording, altogether, about as much privacy as a day on Candid Camera...
...only for tactical reasons, Smith seemed unlikely to declare independence from Britain immediately. His party holds a wafer-thin, five-seat majority in the 65-man Parliament, and he probably will not get parliamentary support for such a move. Moreover, the British now pay preferential prices for Southern Rhodesia's staple crop of tobacco; thus, independence might be costly. Hendrik Verwoerd's government in South Africa sympathizes with Smith's policies, but Verwoerd has no desire to take on Southern Rhodesia's economic and military problems in addition...
...House of Commons, one vote is enough." Last week Ted Heath, now President of the Board of Trade, had the uncomfortable opportunity to test that axiom. The Tories, who nowadays can usually muster a majority of 80 votes or so, just barely managed to survive a vote by the wafer-thin margin...