Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator gave his permission for such a puff even though the book seems to be doing well enough in the cash-and-carry market. In print only a month, the volume-which accuses President Johnson of having "cast away" a chance to negotiate an end to the Viet Nam war early in 1967-has recorded almost 40,000 sales. That's not yet sufficient to recoup the advance of about $150,000 that Doubleday & Co. paid to Kennedy, but still it seems to be a brisk beginning...
...shinnied along the limb until he was dangling about four feet above the stream. Thinking him safe, and unable to fend off the dogs, Mrs. Goodman ran back to the house and tele phoned her husband Eugene, 26, a self-employed exterminator who was working part time in a market at nearby Lynchburg. Goodman sped home in his pickup truck, found his wife hysterical and barely capable of pointing out to him the area where she had last seen Gene. Thrashing wildly down the hill and shouting his sons' names as he ran, Goodman was brought up short...
Boston has already revitalized much of its wharf area. In St. Louis, preservationists have presented plans to save from urban removal several cast-ironfront buildings north of the Jefferson Memorial Gateway Arch. And in Seattle, a vociferous citizens' group called "Friends of the Market" is winning its fight to resuscitate the flavorful but financially fading Farmer's Market on Puget Sound as an area for art galleries, shops and boutiques...
...moment, however, trading remained volatile. Ironically, one reason was market uncertainty over the precise measures that the Basel meeting had produced. On the Paris market, volume was so heavy that dealers ran out of gold ingots, had to delay delivery of one-kilogram bars for two weeks. In London, demand reached the highest levels since the week following Britain's devaluation. Nonetheless, dealers remained confident that any conceivable speculation could be met. For all their activity over the past month, private speculators have purchased an estimated $600 million worth of gold-a relatively small drain on the total...
...business in a complex of modern buildings that he has put up around his father's old workshop. With little formal education, he reads so haltingly that he prefers to have aides deliver reports orally-but he makes up for all that with a sharp business mind. To market his product in Europe, for example, Christiansen shunned toy wholesalers to set up his own network of 13 sales branches. He explains: "We would have disappeared in the multitude of competitors if we had placed ourselves in the hands of wholesalers...