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From: ndiamond@watdaisy.UUCP (Norman Diamond)
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Subject: Re: Eyeglass frames--why so expensive?
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Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 12:39:49 EST
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> Last summer I bought a new set of glasses for the first time in 11
> years.  The frames ... cost FIVE TIMES as much as the old.
> -- Dick Grantges

That's not much more than the last 11 years' worth of inflation.  The
increase in real terms is around 25% or so (still maybe unjustified).

-- Norman Diamond

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