Word: wallet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another threat to the wallet is the galloping increase in inflation caused by the fuel crisis. The wholesale price in dex in November shot up at an annual rate of 21.6%, led by a 19.3% jump in fuel prices. The Cost of Living Council nevertheless decided last week to per mit an extra boost of 20 a gallon in wholesale prices of heating oil that will shortly raise homeowners' monthly bills...
...many states and slated to become the national standard. On the contrary, a General Motors computer study indicates that trucks burn 1 5% less fuel going 50 to 55 m.p.h. than when doing 70. The real issue in the cabs is not fuel economy but money in the wallet. Most hired drivers are paid by the mile, not the hour; the 400,000 who pilot their own rigs must try to haul as many loads as possible in a week. Averaging 55 rather than 70, they can cover 150 fewer miles in a ten-hour driving...
...impossible, however, to leave Conrad Rooks's filmed Siddhartha without gingerly reaching for one's wallet to make sure it's still there. This unspeakable insult to the cinema and to the India it depicts has all the imaginative variety of a Hare Krishna marathon in Harvard Square, and the P.T. Barnum mentality lately put to profitable use by a noted fifteen-year old mob leader who drives a Rolls-Royce. Never has the search for eternal cosmic wisdom been so short (an hour and a half), seemed so long (an eternity), and revealed so little...
Chic Anarchy. Finally Sack trots out Calley again, this time interviewed before his trial while he was playing tourist in New York. Dressed in a brown tweed suit with a credit card in his wallet, Calley glues himself to a telescope atop the Empire State Building and looks for sunbathing girls. Downstairs it's a four-Bloody Mary lunch and reminiscences about Asian whores. "Normal, normal," says Sack, "like sugar in water, he had been dropped in a city street scene but he didn't displace anything." It is a little late in the century, though...
...Miller's roommates said yesterday that he and a third roommate became alarmed when Miller did not return home to dress for work on Tuesday night. Miller works an 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift as a security guard at Hynes Auditorium in Boston. He left his wallet, watch and clothing in his room, Myers said...