Word: market
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stock market was closed today or else I'd have bought some shares," McCurdy added...
...purpose of these impertinent propositions is supposed to be market research. An Ohio firm that sells animal-shaped plastic planters wondered whether sales would increase if its clerks hugged every customer...
...those who use the "public" airwaves. The argument goes as follows: Public broadcasting, if properly funded, provides a vital, public service, producing enriching and artistically sound programs. Commercial television, on the other hand, produces some sort of inferior, mind-rotting drivel--all in the name of the advertising market. Because commercial broadcasters limit access to a valuable resource, they should help fund the public system. Spectrum fees will provide a politically insulated, long-term form of financing...
...lower profit which comes from avoiding stocks of companies which operate in South Africa. Of course, this cost is highly speculative--Stanford did not even venture to estimate it. Harvard's estimates of $1.8-6.8 million annually for recurring costs are based on a Princeton study of the stock market in the years 1953-1968. This study demonstrated the overall greater profitability of investment in the large multinational corporations, which comprise the bulk of U.S. business interests. However, in the ten years since 1968 the multinationals have not fared nearly so well. Many investors now prefer to invest in other...
Despite the lack of federal help, Tsongas said that "there are plenty of happy stories in Massachusetts." He cited Quincy Market and the privately financed redevelopment of aging downtown Lowell as examples of communities doing it on their...