Word: market
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, winter golf requires special equipment of a fairly refined nature. One necessary accoutrement is the biodegradable golf tee. This rare accessory was put on the market last year. Instead of hunting for a white tee in the snow, the player simply leaves his tee behind. It slowly dissolves and seeps down to fertilize the underlying turf...
...last week, "I've got cattle that slowly die. They're extremely thin right now and they've got pus oozing out of abcesses. They're stiff and lame and not giving any milk, of course. They've been tested and they're perfectly legal to put on the market for consumption." His family does not consume anything the farm produces now, Jones added...
...energy. Sure, Europeans and Japanese and Latin Americans have been putting much of their surplus cash into land and factories in the U.S., which they figure is immune to the socialism that infects many of their own countries. But they would invest much more-particularly in the U.S. stock market, which is undervalued and could use the lift from abroad-if the dollar showed signs of recovery. So long as it falls, Europeans stand to lose on their American investments...
...count 'em, ten other planned sequels; Medway Productions will make other kinds of films, including a sequel to Lucas' 1973 hit, American Graffiti. Sprocket Systems Inc. will provide special effects for the Star Wars progeny and any other films that need its services, and Black Falcon Ltd. will market books, records, toys and other spin-offs from Lucas' films...
...profits of future Haldemans -and worthier authors-may indeed be crimped as a consequence of the Scranton caper. "This will blow the syndication market to hell," says Roger Straus Jr., president of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Straus predicts that newspapers and magazines will now lower the amounts they are willing to pay for reprint rights. Even at the Post, William B. Dickinson Jr., head of the company's syndicate and book publishing arm, frets: "There's a question of whether there's a balance evolving in favor of public disclosure, as opposed to copyright and property right...