Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result, the antiques market is at present enjoying an unprecedented boom. The demand for a piece of the past was such that the auction houses hammered down one record after another in 1977: rare books ($360,000 for John James Audubon's Birds of America), Sèvres porcelain ($102,600 for Marie Antoinette's delicately painted milk pail), American furniture ($135,000 for a Boston-made mahogany bombé chest, circa 1780), even tin toys ($3,105 for a Mickey Mouse organ grinder...
...collectors tend to be young, well educated, discriminating, and they know what they want. Many of them want Americana, probably the fastest growing segment of the New York antiques market. Prices have skyrocketed. Twelve years ago, a pair of paintings by Ammi Phillips, a 19th century naive artist, sold for $10,000. Last April a pair of Phillips paintings went for $44,000 at auction ?and were reportedly resold within a month for twice that amount...
Though the Star's market is heavily populated by job-secure Government workers and blessed with one of the nation's highest per-household incomes ($28,611 a year), the capital had for a time been in danger of becoming a one-newspaper town. Long Washington's leading daily, the afternoon Star two decades ago began slipping behind the aggressive morning Post in both circulation and advertising revenues. When sold to Allbritton in 1974, the Star's losses were close to $8 million. Allbritton installed tighter financial controls, trimmed the staff by about a third, persuaded...
...domestic routes is prompted by several factors beyond merely trying to attract new customers. A new regulatory reform bill is now before Congress and stands a good chance of being enacted. Some airline executives fear that it could permit a flock of small, new airlines to enter the market. A number of the established carriers believe that one way to counter such legislation is to prove, by cutting prices, that they really are competing against one another...
Many could argue convincingly that students and their parents have no business trying to influence decisions at Harvard. Someone with this point of view could well see Harvard as a colossal business corporation that produces a commodity for market consumption--an education, a label, opportunities for higher incomes and greater status. The consumers--students and their parents--can either purchase Harvard's expensive product or choose another. A person with this perspective would also probably favor elite rule over democratic rule, believing students and parents too incompetent to actually deserve any voice...