Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fulton Fish Market in New York City opens for business in the dark at 4:30 in the morning, and the two main open air sheds on South Street are active until about 9 a.m. Buyers move through the market to find the best prices for 50- and 125-lb. lots. For retail markets and restaurant owners, filleters break up the lots to order...
What has happened to A.M.C. so far is that in all the 23 years since it was created by the merger of Nash-Kelvinator* and Hudson Motor Car Co., the company has never been able to find a secure niche in the auto market. It prospered in the late 1950s by bringing out the first U.S. compact, the Rambler, but then lost much of its market share when General Motors, Ford and Chrysler started making compacts too. In the mid-1960s it tried to compete against the Big Three by offering a wider range of car sizes and lost disastrously...
...true that total car sales in the U.S. this year will hit 11 million-but in the past few weeks that has become a giant "if." American Motors President William Luneburg poses these questions raised by the energy shortage: "Do you really think that the people out of the market because of unemployment can be counted on to return, and in what numbers, and when?" American Motors will undoubtedly hang on in the sales race, but its hopes for stopping the flow of red ink are once more in the hands of outside forces...
...Haley has made well over $1 million in royalties, and the money seems bound to flow in even faster. To promote the book, he is making a three-month lecture tour. In addition, a two-record album telling of his hunt for roots will soon be on the market; a more detailed version will be forthcoming as a book, titled Search. Finally, he says, there are plans for further TV series, perhaps concentrating on young Kunta Kinte in Africa or his descendants' story just after the Civil...
...brought inflation down two per cent, one of the lowest rates in the world, and Indian exports have climbed steadily for the past year and a half, producing $3 billion in foreign reserves as a result of the favorable balance of payments. In addition, after years of black market profiteering, the market has begun to function more smoothly in India, and many items once unobtainable for most people have become commonly available at affordable prices...