Word: buying
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...State Nicholas Katzenbach to Europe, another led by Under Secretary for Political Affairs Eugene Rostow to Asia, a third captained by Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs Anthony Solomon to Canada. Preliminary negotiations were under way to offset the cost of keeping American troops overseas by getting West Germany to buy $700 million in U.S. Treasury bonds, Japan $500 million. A task force headed by New Mexico Publisher Robert McKinney, former Ambassador to Switzerland, was looking into ways to lure more foreign tourists to the U.S. The Commerce Department was recruiting a force of dozens of specialists to watchdog U.S. investments...
...symptoms of monetary malaise are abundant. Because its sterling is tarnished, Britain has been forced to deflate and then devalue, causing its citizens to pay more for what they buy from the rest of the world. The dollar is also under assault. Betting that its value will decline, some cautious bankers and quick-profit speculators are selling dollars for gold at a rapid rate. The hemorrhage of U.S. gold has become alarming-nearly $1 billion in the past two months-and last week President Johnson took some stern actions to stop it (see THE NATION and BUSINESS). It is obvious...
...doing better than the figures showed, because much of the profit goes back to the students. He says HSA will probably be able to wipe out the deficit and have a surplus next year. Tobias said that any surplus would be used to start new businesses and maybe to buy a new building. HSA is expanding even without a surplus: the Information Gathering Service (IGS) moved into the third floor of the Putnam Furniture Company on Mass Ave this week...
Biggest seller by far is the listening course, which a plant or office can buy from Xerox for a basic $1,200 fee plus a small charge ($1.80 to $3.50) for each enrollee. Xerox sells its customers on the fact that managers spend 45% of their time listening to others; yet let most of what they hear go in one ear and out the other. The half-day drill brings marked improvement: "retention" rates in one group of salesmen (notoriously poor listeners) rose from 20% to 84% after the course. Jarman was so enthusiastic about the program that he ordered...
...series of articles that began last September, the paper told how six prominent Long Island Republicans and many lesser fry had been using public office to make a killing from Islip's surging land boom. Their favorite stunt was to buy residential land around Islip, rezone it for business, and then sell at a handsome profit. It was a coordinated effort. In one instance, the paper discovered, Town Attorney Walter Con-Ion, who was later appointed a state tax commissioner, drew up a resolution relaxing zoning restrictions on land he had bought in partnership with a Long Island hoodlum...