Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush also applauded efforts by the Soviet Union to make its economy more market-oriented, saying "I would like to have a climate in which American businessmen can help in what Chairman Gorbachev is trying to do with reform...
...Comecon, the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, was based on a curious reverse mercantilism: the imperial country (the Soviet Union) supplied energy and raw materials that the colonies (the satellites) paid for in manufactured goods. Since the Soviet Union was chronically short of almost everything, it was an undemanding market, providing no incentive for East Europeans to develop products for sophisticated customers. These bad habits will not be shed overnight...
They had better get those historic stocking stuffers out fast if they want to corner the market. William Bell, 22, a Munster, Ind., car salesman, and his uncle, Paul Wells, 37, a painting contractor from suburban Washington, have set up an import company to send out what they, too, say are nuggets of the famous barricade. According to Wells, Bell was in Berlin last week "chipping away." And along New York City's fashionable Fifth Avenue, two more entrepreneurs, David Schwartz and Edmond Howar, are undercutting the competition with their own purported pieces of the Wall. Price...
...Harvard problem is not a priority, and rightly so," Schkolnick says. "[The MCAD] has very immediate problems" like discrimination in housing and the job market. She says she feels that, "sometime, if they have a free moment, they will...
...same logic applies to rent control in Cambridge. About 40 percent of those in rent-controlled apartments can pay higher rents. Since the property values are lower than market rents, the city collects less in taxes...