Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...star of the A.F.C.'s best defensive unit, an indefatigable worker in community projects and perhaps the team's most popular player, mused: "Who the hell would want an orange Christmas tree? I sure wouldn't." Enough Denverites did, however, to strip the shelves of spray paint. And the distributor for the sweet soft drink that bears the fortunate?not to mention cleverly exploited?appellation, Orange Crush, has had to hire 20 additional employees to meet the demand...
...feel better about money, trainees play financial games, dance to songs about money, imagine cash piling up on their laps and chew dollar bills. Some of the trainees are reluctant to chew at first. Explains Ruby Buchanan, 30, a cosmetics distributor: "I thought about all the places it has been, and all the hands that touched it. Then, as I chewed, it just began to feel like a piece of wood. I think it helps change your perception of money. I now feel less guilty when I spend, for instance." Trainees are given "treasure maps" and told to paste...
...Harvard is really fine," says Sallay, who works with an antique distributor during his time off the ice and says he is very interested in interior decorating. "I just love England; it's like a second home for me, and this place reminds me of England very much...
There have been charges that unscrupulous insulation distributors are out to make a fast buck on the public's energy anxieties. Some wholesalers have hiked prices 20%, even though fiber glass manufacturers have not raised most quotes since last March. Arthur Milot, president of a Rhode Island lumber firm, says he was offered insulation in September by a salesman from National Gypsum, a distributor for Owens-Corning, for 20% above the prevailing price. He refused to buy, yet the incident convinced him that whatever profiteering is going on is occurring at "the middleman's level...
...present, only half the profit on sales of assets such as stock and real estate is usually taxed). Businessmen complain that that would inhibit the very investment the President says he is so anxious to promote. Says James L. Moody Jr., president of Hannaford Bros. Co., a Maine food distributor: "The chief incentive to invest in business is to make money. Such proposals will slow down businessmen's investments in the U.S. at a time when countries like the Soviet Union and Japan are allocating more for capital investment...