Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rich" are overpriced, overadmired and an indictment of the U.S. open market economy. The "Sherpas of the Subclause" are the secondary perpetrators of this financial fraud on the American public. The most guilty parties of all are the mass media. This article graphically endorses financial inequality...
...Broadway theater-ever," says a spokesman for Loews, the conglomerate that operates one of the nation's largest movie chains. That kind of talk about the science-fiction movie Star Wars finds avid listeners among investors and stockbrokers disgusted by the aimless zigs and zags of a dispirited market. The price of shares in 20th Century-Fox, the maker of Star Wars, has more than doubled since the film opened in 32 theaters four weeks ago, leading a boom in movie and entertainment stocks generally. MGM has roared from $16 to $24.25 this year, Columbia Pictures shares have doubled...
...rich legumes that have brought great wealth to farmers and speculators. The three traders were accused of the long-forbidden practice of "bucketing." A bucketing broker takes a customer's order to buy or sell soybeans or other commodities but, instead of making the transaction on the open market, the trader arranges a private rigged deal that can bring him an illegal profit. If proved guilty, Groover, the alleged ringleader, could face up to 128 years in prison and a fine of more than $4 million. Three other soybean traders-Sam H. LaMantia, Ralph J. Hemminger and Leo Sussman...
Adeline is no Show Boat, but it was initially well-received; and, despite the effect of the stock-market crash on the public mood a few weeks later, it managed a healthy 234-performance run. It has plenty of fine music and some good lyrics. The main trouble lies in its book, which is silly and amorphous (the same, in sooth, might be said about the plot of many a grand opera...
...other direction, the Haymarket stop near the North End is worth getting off for. At the market vendors offer fruit and vegetables from open wooden carts on the street, which is always covered with at least a day's layer of garbage. Good deals are available there, but watch out for the hucksters who will slip you a bag of rotten peaches from behind their stands in place of the perfect peaches enticing you out front. It is wise to go in the evening, when the sellers want to go home and will therefore sell whatever they have left...