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...SLOPPY SERVICE. Consumers Union, a nonprofit, private testing organization of which Nader is a board member, distributed 20 deliberately broken TV sets to New York City homes and asked neighborhood repairmen to fix them: only three of the 20 were properly serviced. Television, air-conditioner and many other repairmen commonly refuse even to look at a cantankerous appliance until they collect a substantial "estimate fee." Texas authorities have forced finance companies to return $1,900,000 to victims of unscrupulous and outrageously sloppy home-improvement firms. Automobile repairing has broken down so badly that automakers have instituted training programs...
OKUN: Federal pay is a real scary area now, given the attitude in Congress and the pressures of the unions. Let us take another simple thing like fair trade. If we could repeal the fair-trade laws that allow some manufacturers to fix retail prices, that action alone could reduce the consumer price index by an estimated three-tenths of 1%. Then there are oil imports and the whole range of policies regarding agriculture, which have important price implications...
Angela, a 48 year-old housewife living in an affluent Boston suburb, finds that her TV is on the fritz. She calls in a repairman to fix it. and she promptly has an affair with him. The repairman 23, also happens to be an inventor. Angela, whose husband is a military man and far away, decides to ?rap the inventor in her home until he comes up with the invention that will free him forever from TV-repairmanship. After three months. he does and leaves. Hubby comes home and a rejuvenated Angela begins her marriage anew...
...paradox of the Fainsod report is that the balky legislative system it will try to fix has so far succeeded in submerging it. The report was supposed to come up yesterday, but it couldn't survive the parliamentary squeeze...
...universities are degenerate and physical stimulus is good, how can Nader recommend a summer in Washington over an evening in University Hall? In a tough logical fix, Nader wriggled out by again expanding his view. The point of all the prodding and stimulus is to be effective, he said. And as long as the students fight on the university's terms, they are using a strikingly ineffective strategy. "Reagan has done with the students at Berkely just what Hitler tried to do with the Jews. He's made them the scapegoats for all the troubles in the state...