Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kimball - an American company that makes moderately priced pianos and has 25% of the U.S. piano market -purchased Bösendorfer. "People were afraid that we would make the 'Kimballdorfer,' some plastic monstrosity," says Vice President Anthony Habig. "But now a lot of them admit that they can get a finer instrument than before...
...Paris-based company is the personal property of Marcel Boussac, 89, an ostentatious millionaire entrepreneur who did so well in textiles after World War I that he became known as France's "Cotton King." In 1946, seeking to revive the war-tattered clothing market, he teamed with a young designer, Christian Dior, to found a fashion house. The next year Dior presented his first collection: the long, ample "new look" that established his reputation and set fashion trends for a decade. Under the management of Jacques Rouet, now 60, it flourished, even after the death of Dior...
...company's debts of more than $100 million. But a group of creditor banks refused to allow this, explaining that most of Boussac's property was already tied up as collateral against previous loans. The French government, in keeping with Premier Raymond Barre's free-market philosophy, will not come to the rescue with taxpayers' money...
Third, instead of fighting the other meat exporters, notably the Australians, the U.S. should join with them in pressing for large increases in meat quotas by Japan and the Common Market...
...peasants, "It's very hard to make them give grain to army horses when I know they're eating straw themselves." In some army units, storehouses bulged with surplus grain-which officers sold for their own profit, and which missionaries and good officials bought from the black market to feed the starving...