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ITEM: In San Francisco, a Safeway official observes: "We have customers who come to the store for no other reason than to buy grapes. They'll load up their car with grapes and nothing else...
...contract between the person elected and the electorate." What followed were the terms of Poher's own contract proposal, and they constituted a clear bid to un-Gaullize France. He pledged to renew ties with the Atlantic alliance, and to reduce France's heavy foreign aid load. Domestically, he promised to chip away at De Gaulle's extravagant "prestige items" and to work for decent housing for everyone, job security and protection against illness...
...founded last year with the aim of promoting other talented people and creating businesses in recording, electronics, publishing, films and retailing. But Apple bankrolled stale ideas and supported a film division that never made a movie. Even the Beatles' enormous earning capacities could no longer comfortably carry the load. Last year they closed Apple's mod boutique after opening the doors for a two-day giveaway of more than $100,000 worth of bellbottoms, see-through blouses and other clothes. Then they shut down Apple's film operation. The firm grossed little more than...
...reationale behind all this saving is that the maximum which prudence allows is being spent from endowment income. Taking a larger share of the load not borne by fees would be, on the long run, suicidal. Is this true? From the end of the Second World War to 1967, the market value of the general investment almost sextupled, which means an average increase of about 8.4 per cent a year compounded. This annual rate of increase is made up mainly of value appreciation but it also includes gifts for capital and undistributed "income." Put in more general terms, the investments...
ORGANIZED labor long ago acquired a stranglehold over the $85 billion construction industry. That power has not only led to an astronomic rise in building wages but has also enabled unions to load the nation's largest industry with archaic and inefficient methods of operation. As a result, construction costs are climbing so swiftly that they are complicating Washington's struggles to increase the supply of housing and restrain inflation. Last week George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, challenged construction-union leaders to adopt reforms. His candor was greeted with boos, jeers and catcalls...