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...authors even have a word of caution about the professional-looking service managers who greet drivers at the entrance to the service department of auto dealerships: they are often paid by commission and thus have powerful incentive to recommend unneeded repairs. If their persuasive salesmanship fails, they sometimes tack on unauthorized replacement orders. Many garages also make use of "flat-rate manuals" that list labor charges based on highly inflated estimates of the time it takes to do each job. If the repairs are finished in half the stipulated time, the fee remains the same-and the garage may hold...
...hoped to demonstrate that China, contrary to disclaimers, is a superpower, and that in no sense does she champion the impoverished, backward Third World. In the crucial Security Council vote on admission, eleven of the 15 members of the Security Council, including the U.S., Russia and India, voted to recommend membership, three abstained, and only China voted to oppose the entry of Bangladesh. Now, unless the Pakistanis themselves recognize Bangladesh soon, the Chinese may find themselves further embarrassed by the reintroduction of the issue as a topic of debate in the forthcoming General Assembly...
Many psychiatrists have come to agree that the new openness has much to recommend it. One of these is Graham Blaine, until recently chief psychiatrist of the Harvard health services. In 1963, Blaine wrote that "college administrations should stand by the old morality" and decried relaxed dormitory rules that allowed girls to visit boys' rooms till 7 p.m. In 1971 he switched sides. "I have been convinced by the young that the new relationships are a noble experiment that should be allowed to run its course...
...catch their heels riding escalators. "It's a whole new trip," says Maurice Boucher of L.A.'s Vibrations Boot Parlor. "Men have never had to think about changing their style of walking or sitting or even driving a car." To ease the transition, many store owners recommend that their customers wear a 2-in. heel before stepping up to anything higher...
...C.E.D. report recommended the appointment of a single presidential board to set such policies, in contrast to the separate wage and price groups that make Phase II decisions. The board would set "relatively broad norms" for allowing higher prices and wages, with "greater discretion" than is now allowed for both wage boosts and higher corporate profit margins. The Phase III guidelines would be essentially voluntary, but if either a corporation or a labor union failed to stay in line with them, the C.E.D. said, the new board should have the power to recommend that the Government place it under compulsory...