Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next day it became clear that Healey's budget had not produced as much sunshine as Britons would like. The St. James's snow had melted all right, but the stock market plummeted, the recently resuscitated pound slipped again and the Liberals began to mutter threats of ending their pact with the Labor Party unless Healey came up with some bigger tax cuts. Reflecting the general mood of Britons, Conservative M.P. William Clark scowled: "The budget is a damp squib...
...month was the boxy Chevette; its sales were up 84%, compared with a year ago. At Ford, Mustang sales rose 14%, while the new Fairmont is a stellar seller. Ford's lacocca puts himself in the position of a price-conscious buyer who has been out of the market for a few years and then visits a showroom to do some tire kicking. Says he sympathetically, "It's a jolt to see what...
...last quarter of 1977, Chrysler suffered an operating loss of $49.7 million, compared with an operating profit of $119.2 million in the 1976 period. This year's first quarter probably wound up in the red too because the company's share of the total U.S. market has slipped (to 11.3% in March) and foreign operations are producing mounting losses. Standard & Poors has downgraded the company's bond rating, and a group of antimanagement stockholders anticipates that the 900-per-share dividend will be eliminated. Besides conserving cash and issuing 20 million shares of a new preferred stock...
...just about everybody on the biggest local story in years, the "Hollywoodgate" scandals. Otis Chandler, 50, Times publisher and vice chairman of the parent Times Mirror Co., asserts blandly: "We already sell more than 30,000 copies [in San Diego], so we're convinced there's a market for a daily paper of our high quality...
...magazine, and is even thinking about changing the paper's name back to the simpler Examiner. But the retooled daily has not yet made any major circulation gains, and it still runs a pathetically distant second in advertising to the Times, which controls 93% of the Los Angeles market's total, v. 1% for the Herald-Examiner. "When I joined this paper, it was puffing along at one mile per hour," concedes the almost inaudibly soft-spoken Bellows. "Now I've got it up to about three miles per hour...