Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wants the shares as the opening wedge in a financial transaction that would eventually make him the largest single shareholder in the Georgia bank. Smith has indicated that he would be willing to pay approximately what Lance paid for the stock-$17 a share, about $5 above the present market price...
Pity Prince Saud al-Faisal, Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia and a possible future king. One among several Arab potentates who have been eying the U.S. real estate market lately, he wanted to have a Manhattan pied-a-terre. Saud's choice was a twelve-room, $600,000 coop apartment on Park Avenue owned by Bruce A. Norris, president of the Detroit Red Wings. Alas, it was not to be. After months of meetings, the other tenants decided not to accept Saud as a co-owner-because of their fear of possible political violence if he moved in. Said...
...Street professionals were predicting that stock prices would zoom and the Dow Jones industrial average would easily soar beyond the peak of 1,051.70 it reached in 1973. So much for savvy. Since January the stock averages have wobbled and worried their way down steadily. Last week the 1977 market's peevishness turned into something approaching panic, as a selling stampede slashed share values and drove the Dow down to its lowest level in 18 months...
Analysts seeking to explain the market's jitters could point to some cloudy economic news. The index of leading indicators, a widely watched barometer of future trends in the economy, dipped down slightly in June, casting some doubt on the durability of the present brisk expansion. Investors have also been puzzled by the slow progress of the Carter tax and energy programs in Congress; they have been concerned about the growing U.S. trade deficit and fretful that a big increase in the money sup ply in recent weeks might prompt the Federal Reserve Board to tighten credit and thus...
...market for over-the-counter analgesics is $720 million a year, and competing manufacturers have shed almost all advertising restraints in an attempt to capture a larger percentage of buyers. At times they have made claims that are exaggerated, misleading or downright false. The battle of words has, in fact, become openly aggressive ("Tylenol, shame on you!" scolds a Bayer ad). The Federal Government, which began to crack down on deceptive advertising of over-the-counter drugs by pharmaceutical companies in 1972, is now threatening other measures as well...