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...high price of meat, but vegetables are no bargain either. Marsha Avrushin of Oak Park, Mich., has taken to prowling supermarkets for off-brand items. Says she: "When I was a kid, a candy bar was a real treat. What makes my kids' mouths water now is a salad. Fruits and vegetables have become a luxury." Though shoppers everywhere are becoming much more discriminating in what they buy, many arrive at the check-out counter with glazed, catatonic expressions on their faces. Says San Francisco Housewife Vera Trinkaus: "What bothers me the most is that the prices on items jump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Furor over Food Costs | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

...ammunition were .stores of food, including U.S. military rations, cans of fruit salad, and frankfurters. Much of the material had been either stolen or purchased illicitly from the Zaïrian army, whose soldiers are so poorly paid that corruption is endemic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Inside Kolwezi: Toll of Terror | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...around her while she read blueprints to them. I noted her shoes were coordinated with her Gucci yellow hard hat. The second picture showed her in a pair of flowing pajamas standing over the stove stirring her filet-mignon helper (recipe on page 36) while her husband tossed the salad and her children lovingly set the table. It made me want to spit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: She-Wits and Funny Persons | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...CRAB SALAD: The lights rowed well on Saturday also, finishing only four seconds behind the heavyweight J.V. as unofficial entrants in that race... Coach Peter Huntsman took off after his crew's victory to run in the Boston Marathon... Kudos to Diana Shaw for a fine job as substitute cox for ailing Susie Peterson... The J.V. lights turned in a strong performance Saturday, losing to the Andover Varsity by only 3.5 seconds...

Author: By Elizabeth N. Friese, | Title: Radcliffe Lights Cruise to Win By Derailing MIT Engineers | 4/18/1978 | See Source »

...recent months. The price of rice has been puffed up by poor crops around the world; a 10-lb. bag that sold for $2.03 wholesale in October now costs more than $3. Torrential rains and floods in California's Salinas Valley, the nation's salad belt, ruined many of the crops already in the ground, and will delay planting of others for up to 60 days. Result: prices of lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus and similar produce are certain to move up. Fishermen will raise the price of tuna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Why Food Prices Are Climbing | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

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