Word: wallet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prices may seem high at first glance, but your taste buds will overrule your wallet by a longshot. The people are unusually friendly, and Underdog's pinball prices are lower than most places in the Square. (It also has the distinction of having a copy of Outer Space undoubtedly the best machine ever made...
...prairielands of Kansas or Texas Bogdanovich creates characters who set out to realize their wildest dreams, whether they be beautiful women or perfect con-games. They don't realize them, but in the process achieve a personal authenticity more important than their dreams. What good is a bulging wallet anyway? They ramble across barren countryside, hands in their pockets, eyes to the ground, finding what they never looked for, contented all the same. He breaks down their myths, without making anybody lose...
...look back on America the Beautiful with nostalgia? On the full-value dollar with an empty feeling in your wallet? Well, you shouldn't. To do so is to submit to "sentimentality, prejudice and myopia," according to Herbert Stein, 56, chairman of President Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers. Speaking before an audience of bankers, businessmen and educators in Richmond last week, Stein denounced critics of the President's new budget for their negative vibrations...
...Stennis got out of his car shortly before 7:40 p.m. and reached back inside to pick up his overcoat and briefcase, two black youths slipped up beside him. They demanded his money, grabbed his wallet (containing credit cards and an undetermined amount of cash), his Phi Beta Kappa key from Mississippi State, his gold pocket watch and his only coin, a quarter. Although he apparently did not resist, one of the thugs then struck him, and the other said something like, "Now we're going to shoot you anyway." Stennis fell from two shots, and the attackers fled...
Nixon will keep mandatory controls on several enterprises that have a particularly strong grip on the American wallet. Hospitals and nursing homes can raise prices no more than an average 6% a year. Doctors and dentists can increase fees only an average of 2.5%. Major food processors will still have to get prior approval for price boosts, and grocers' markups will be closely regulated. Construction wage hikes must be cleared by the Construction Industry Stabilization Committee...