Word: buy
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...year. So where is the recession? Like a mugger, it could be lurking around the next quarter if it has not already pounced. Real personal earnings are down nearly 5% from last year, and there are signs that consumer spending is still powered largely by the inflationary psychology of buy now or pay more later. Even as they report their sales increases, retailers are noting that customers are taking longer to pay off their debts than they did six months...
...Even some six-digit corporate executives have no idea how they will bankroll their retirement, so Moffitt has collected his Wall Street Journal columns on personal finance into a $4.95 paperback for them as well as more modest money earners. Moffitt writes with cheekiness; the section on how to buy directors' liability insurance begins: "So you were dozing in your Eames chair when the other directors approved that 'commission' to His Austere Majesty the Grand Serene Slob of Lower Slobbovia?" Six pages on cutting home heating costs are invaluable, if only for touting a 70? National Bureau...
...costs of an abortion. Glossaries help to explain insurance, stock market and real estate terms that Porter calls "bafflegab." Her style is brisk and hortatory. Porter warns her readers: "If you need a spring rain coat, don't stop off at the section reserved for bathing suits and buy a bikini at top price. I've done this sort of thing plenty of times, and I bet you have...
...perils of a 20-room cave. Computer language is flat and unresonant, and Hunt the Wumpus lacks a certain dash. But a toymaker may say, "Give me a way to display a Wumpus! Make him buzz and light up!" and next Christmas everyone may be going into debt to buy an expensive, electronic Wumpus Wars. By then, civilization as we have already started to forget it will have disappeared beneath a pile of spent alkaline cells...
...offed a lot of aliens. Current hard-to-believe heroic high scores: by a Chicago player, 187,520, and a 257,000 claimed by a Pennsylvania college student. Midway Mfg. Co. of Illinois has sold 40,000 of the machines in a year, and, yes, you can buy one for your rec room...