Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Street Smart. Spotting stock market trends takes a special kind of clairvoyance. Marc Howard is, at 36, one of the most successful investors on Wall Street. Though the past three years have been lean and mean for many on the Street, Howard in that time has taken home millions. His secret: "I'm concerned more with the market's perception of a stock than with the reality of the stock itself. I can't afford to buy a stock today because I think it's going to have great earnings...
...several days a month jets off to wherever sun or snow may beckon. Byers' secret has been to specialize in selling fellow veterans relatively inexpensive homes with VA-guaranteed loans. Says he: "We sell an average of 100 houses a month in the $60,000-and-below market. We make money on volume, not high-priced individual units. We're kind of like McDonald...
...lawyers, dentists, engineers) is something else again. Their earnings, though broadly determined by the general marketplace, are also subject to the influences of an intimate psychological marketplace, one in which intangibles of repute and character are bought and sold along with knowledge and service. Some professionals also manipulate their market by limiting their own numbers - in the way that physicians do through their control of professional education and licensing...
Bertolt Brecht sought refuge in the U.S. in 1941 and went to Hollywood "to join the market where lies are bought." Happy End, a musical written in 1929, resembles nothing so much as an oldtime, screwball gangster movie. A rollicking revival staged recently at the Brooklyn Academy of Music has now been admirably transferred to Broadway's Martin Beck Theater...
Operation Market-Garden was yet another in the great tradition of British military foulups. Like such classics as the charge of the Light Brigade and Gallipoli, it was a bold idea totally bollixed up in the execution. This movie version of the battle, based on Cornelius Ryan's bestselling history, does permit Britain's acting fraternity to redeem its generals' follies. Whatever is lively and memorable in the film, which is not much, is provided by the English members of the most expensive all-star cast in recent memory. Their Yank allies, doubtless because they had second...