Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With production heading higher, unemployment dropping and profits climbing, businessmen by all rights ought to be bullish. Quite the opposite: last week brought two new signs that they are still deeply worried. The stock market, that sometimes distorted mirror of investment hopes and fears, tumbled 22 points, as measured by the Dow Jones industrial average, to a 34-month low of 753. And a McGraw-Hill poll of executives in eleven industrial countries found U.S. businessmen second from the bottom in confidence about the future. Only profit-pinched Belgian managers were more apprehensive...
...have to permit savings and loans to pay more than their present 5½% maximum. Otherwise, savers would be tempted to pull out their money and invest it in Treasury bills and other paper that yield up to 6½%-a process that chokes off credit to the housing market...
...women's concerns in employment, health, education, law, etc., but addresses itself specifically to West Virginia women. One section, for example, explores opportunities for women in coal mining. Another part describes emerging small industries run by women, such as quilting cooperatives; only recently have these women begun to market and sell the region's traditional crafts and handwork. The book's food and nutrition section contains information on gardening and canning, familiar chores for most Appalachian women...
...instead of saying, "I wrote Coma to make some money and to have a bit of fun with people's fears about hospitals," he says, "I wrote Coma because I felt people should be made aware of the urgent need for organ donors, and of the emerging black market for body parts." Yeah, sure...
...argued that other offending proposals-notably the recision of tax advantages for capital gains-had been eliminated. He urged the businessmen to support the provisions they approved of rather than oppose the entire bill. But when he said the economy was doing well in all respects except the stock market, one guest cried: "In effect we are in liquidation! How can you say we are doing all that well?" The mood became even chillier when discussion turned to Carter's energy program. "It was about as intense and hostile as anything I have ever observed," said one participant. Charles...