Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Paying the manufacturer's list price shown on the window sticker of a new car may be about as smart as snapping up an itinerant rug merchant's opening offer. Very few buyers do- but equally few have any notion of the facts on which dealer dickering is based. Such knowledge can save the buyer several hundred dollars...
Federal law requires that window stickers list the retail price of cars plus the price of optional accessories and the destination charge. Dealers cannot charge more than the list price; they can and generally do charge less. What the buyer really needs to know is the wholesale price-the price that the dealer pays the manufacturer. Dealers and manufacturers are not required to reveal wholesale prices, and they don't. A rule of thumb is that compact cars are marked up 21%, regular cars 25%, and luxury models 27% to 29%. Therefore, the wholesale price can roughly be figured...
...play at teatime for an elderly friend and herself on condition that he remain concealed behind a screen. Or James Gordon Bennett, owner of the New York Herald, who bought a restaurant in Monte Carlo one day because he could not get a seat by the window, cleared the restaurant of customers, lunched at leisure and then gave a waiter the deed to the place...
...surprisingly, Christopher loved heights. He had probably been on the roof of as many buildings that year as the average chimney sweep. And more than once, I suspect, he visited a friend by coming in an upper-story window...
...lady at the checking account window, however was baffled. She nervously handed Dillaway his receipt and looked away...