Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prepared to risk a perpetual sauna with no snow to roll sinfully and Scandinavianly in afterwards, you'll want to know what new flavor discs you can buy for the person's who sampled just about every other edible popcorn plate on the market...
...probably ill-advised attempt to persuade the steel industry to cut back its announced price increases (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Taking a conciliatory step back from his campaign talk. Carter later reiterated that he would not seek authority to invoke wage and price controls ("I believe in the free-market system") but might try to establish voluntary guidelines in close consultation with industry and labor...
...enabled Andreotti, a seasoned politician who has three tunes been Premier and was a minister in 16 governments, to crank out an intensive program of austerity measures-including stiffer tariffs, higher government-controlled prices, and proposed wage restraints-aimed at curing the sickest partner in the European Common Market. Italy's current inflation rate is 18%, its internal deficit is estimated at $20 billion, and its foreign trade deficit has doubled in only a year, to $4.4 billion. So weak is the lira that it has to be supported by a 7% surtax on foreign exchange purchases. Italy...
Late in the week President Ford's Council on Wage and Price Stability issued a 14-page report arguing that the steel increases were not justified by market demand. The rises, said COWPS Acting Director William Lilley III, were moves by steel men to "protect themselves against possible future wage and price controls." Some executives did not altogether deny that they were jumping the inaugural gun. Said U.S. Steel Chairman Edgar Speer: "The political situation is always a consideration. Let's not kid ourselves." Why, then, had Speer told stockholders three weeks ago that there would...
...market for steel is soft, because of the wavering state of the nation's recovery. The industry is operating at only 67% of capacity. Normally, prices in that kind of a market go down rather than up-and nearly all steelmakers have been forced to discount prices as much as 10% below list to keep supplies moving in the face of weaker demand. But higher list prices still would return more money to the producers, even after discounts. It is money that they claim they need because of higher costs brought about in part by new union contracts. National...