Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fellowship is the Mellon Foundation's way of supporting the humanities when the job market is tight," Hunt added. "It allows winners to return to their positions with better prospects for tenure...
...unique, with bubbles, streaks, ripples, tints, curves and a translucency that seems to give it a life of its own. This so-called "antique" glass, obtainable in some 3,000 colors and shadings, is imported almost exclusively from European makers, who cannot produce enough to feed the American market...
Still, the various ups and downs of Crossed Swords are not important; the real issue raised by the film is why it was made at all. There just isn't much of a market for a movie like this in the U.S. any more: family films are too slow for adults and too tame for children raised on ABC sitcoms and Star Wars. By making a fetish of booking such movies, Radio City Music Hall has in effect willed its own death...
...pieces in all. When it was completed in 1454, the 150-copy paper edition fetched about 20 guilders (roughly $1,000) apiece; the 35 parchment copies were a little more. Now three of the 48 complete or partial Gutenberg Bibles still known to exist are on the market in New York City. The asking price has been as high as $2.5 million, which is what Rare-Book Dealer Hans P. Kraus tried, unsuccessfully, to get for the Bible he acquired in 1970. But the price for the copies being put up for sale by the General Theological Seminary...
Because the new composite materials can be formed into almost any shape, are extremely strong and durable, and weigh far less than metals of comparable strength, a ready market was available when they first appeared in the 1960s. The aircraft industry began using new composites for helicopter blades, turbojet fans and many other components-first plastics containing boron fibers. Then manufacturers began turning to fibers made of carbon or graphite (another form of carbon), which were less expensive and more versatile than the boron variety...