Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peking, tickets to ideologically suspect movies are among the most highly prized items on the black market. Though screenings of such films as The Red Shoes and The Sound of Music are restricted to high Communist officials, a clever practitioner of tsou-hou-men can sneak in by exchanging a favor with someone employed in the moviehouse or in the Ministry of Culture...
Miller's appointment almost surely will not mean any sweeping change in Federal Reserve policy, at least until he overcomes his newness. A Board chairman has only one of the twelve votes on the Fed's critical Open Market Committee: its decisions on the buying and selling of Government securities largely determine the rate of money-supply growth and the level of interest rates. The chairman eventually does rule, but by force of personality, which takes time to establish...
...line with White House policy. Not only was he a longtime economic adviser to Nixon, but he had also served as Dwight Eisenhower's Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1953 to 1956. Burns was an early student of the importance of business cycles in free-market economies, giving him a curriculum vitae that had all the earmarks of a man with the business community's interests at heart...
...those little-known Saudis has volunteered to start digging Bert Lance out from under his mountain of debts. Ghaith Pharaon, 37, has offered to buy 60% of the stock in Lance's National Bank of Georgia for $20 a share, or about $4 above market value. Whether other stockholders accept or not, Lance will turn over 60% of his 200,000-odd shares to Pharaon and get a check for about $2.4 million...
Manny Trillo says his work at the housing authority makes him believe Spanish-speaking people have no more problems with housing discrimination than any other low-income group, certainly not in public housing in Cambridge. If Hispanics have more trouble in the private housing market, it may be because of "a cultural stigma against what Hispanics do in their homes," says Trillo. "We are loud, we talk very loud, and that scares people. It's a cultural thing. When I'm with Anglo friends I'm very calm, talking like I just got out of college. But when...