Word: marketed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...they could bottle and market their bombast and bluster about the U.S. economy, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford would become millionaires many times over. To hear Carter on the stump, the nation is heading right back to 1932, with serpentine lines of unemployed, shuttered factories and silent cash registers. After the Administration released some third-quarter statistics last week, Carter put out a statement that said they point to "a continuation of high unemployment, huge budget deficits and dim prospects for an improvement in the standard of living for the average worker...
...number of people looking for work is leaping faster than the economy can provide jobs, and unemployment sticks on a high plateau (7.8% in September). Because women and teen-agers are often among the last hired and first fired-and the least trained-their presence in the job market swells the official unemployment rate. And that much headlined statistic tends to exaggerate the image of dire suffering caused by unemployment. In September only 2.5% of those in the labor force had been out of work for 15 weeks or more and .6% for a year or more. The unemployment rate...
...billion crash program to subsidize nonpetroleum sources of power was roundly defeated by Congress last year because it was considered extravagant. As an alternative strategy, Ford has pushed-and Congress has blocked-complete deregulation of oil and gas prices to allow what he calls "the efficient means" of market forces to encourage conservation and development of new energy supplies. The President is also calling for programs to increase the use of coal, to harness "the unlimited potential of solar energy and fusion power," and to facilitate the construction of nuclear-power plants. He is generally opposed, however, to mandatory energy...
...government of President Kim II Sung. Officials in Norway estimated that their branch of the Kim gang had smuggled into the country at least 4,000 bottles of booze (mostly Polish vodka) and 140,000 cigarettes, which were then given surreptitiously to Norwegian wholesalers for distribution on the black market. In Denmark, the illegal goodies impounded so far included 400 bottles of liquor, 4.5 million cigarettes and 147 kilos of hashish, which police confiscated two weeks ago from two Danes who had just bought the drug from North Korean embassy staffers...
...necessarily have to go out into the marketplace in order to be recognized as a person of worth in her own right," not only does she have problems with grammar but she somehow forgets that, believe it or not, most women in this country who "get out into the market place" don't have much choice: they do it because their children are hungry and need clothes or because womeone in the family should have had an operation months ago but the money wasn't there to pay for it. They do it out of necessity, not want, and they...