Word: marketed
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There are other results. High unemployment rates set one group of workers against other groups of workers against other groups trying to get into the job market. Established union see "affirmative actions" by women and ethnic minorities as intolerable competition for already scarce jobs. Further, social action groups are forced to compete with each other for the little that any of them receive, for to the degree that military expenditures consume public resources, needed social programs are reduced. The biggest losers are of course the poor, and those either already unemployed or on fixed incomes...
Though Inventor Clive Sinclair, 37, is hoping to drum up demand for his set throughout Europe, he is particularly interested in the rich American market, where he has limited sales to such pricy outlets as Manhattan-based Bloomingdales, Dallas' Neiman-Marcus and Southern California's Bullocks. Even so, he insists the set "is not a toy. Its uses are endless-at sporting events, on a boat, commuting by train, for automobile passengers...
Commercial success for the minitube is also a life-or-death issue for Britain's Sinclair Radionics, which has shown itself adept at technology but unlucky at marketing. The firm was founded in 1962 to make and sell transistor radios developed by Clive Sinclair; he had soaked up a knowledge of electronics while working as a writer for a British company that specialized in technical manuals. By 1967 he had diversified into hi-fi systems. A few years later, he introduced the elegant, expensive and popular line of "Executive" calculators in Europe and the U.S. But in 1975 such...
...conversations with Keating: "She spoke of the state of the nation." During a get-together between Keating, his ex-wife and their children, "they talked of his father's funeral, of the sale of the old house, of the problems of squatters, of property rights and the property market, of inheritance, and wills, and money, and North Sea Oil, of leaseholds and freeholds, of solicitors and stamp duty." Chatter like that is enough to give solipsism a good name. Yet such lapses are the accidental by-products of an interesting and impressive experiment. A champion and biographer of Arnold...
...lent his sudsy presence to the Annual World Belly Flop and Cannonball Diving Championship in Vancouver. This week he travels to Ohio for the U.S. Peanut Olympics, which involves a shelling contest and other hilarities. A line of Billy posters, T shirts and belt buckles is going on the market. California's Revell Inc. is manufacturing a model Billy Carter Redneck Power Pickup Truck. Billy has appeared at Manhattan's "21" Club to push a peanut liqueur, and a Kentucky brewer is bringing out a new brand called Billy Beer, which the First Brother will hawk...