Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have large managerial groups, and both still allow glaring inequalities-the "half-truths and hypocritical evasion" of Soviet propaganda notwithstanding. In Russia, he says, "there is still great inequality in wealth between the city and the countryside, especially in rural areas that lack a transport outlet to the private market or do not produce the goods in demand in private trade. There are great differences between cities with some of the new, privileged industries and those with older, antiquated industries. As a result, 40% of the Soviet population are in difficult economic circumstances...
...play the President, Central Casting tapped J. B. Peck, 66, retired sheriff of Garland, Texas, and L.B.J.'s somewhat look-alike first cousin. It's just a flash of his pan, and J.B. got a kick out of it all. But then, considering the relatively short-term market for his kind of role, he headed back to his job as security guard for the Dallas Cowboys football team...
...latest enterprise of Union Carbide is located in a former liquor store on a street of squalid tenements and shops in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant district. Similarly, the famed IBM trademark now hangs proudly over what was once a fruit market in Harlem. Neither company is looking for new customers in those quarters. Instead, both are serving as sponsors of "street academies," a new kind of informal learning program designed to lure high school dropouts to education and, hope fully, on to college...
Such liberalization often reflects the tightness and youthfulness of today's labor market. When a young woman fresh out of college takes a job, notes a secretary at Lawyers Title Insurance Corp. in Washington, she often owns nothing but miniskirts. "The men huff and puff, and the old maids grimace, but what are you going to do?" Another factor is the influx of Negro and Spanish-speaking workers, many of whom are less inhibited by convention, thus dress with more flair...
Whatever they may be worth on the market, stock certificates have always had a certain value just hanging on the wall. Christmas shoppers have been known to frame a particularly handsome, ornately engraved share of stock for the man who has everything. Unfortunately, the beauty of certificates lies only in the eye of the holder. To those who buy, sell and keep them in trust, they are a constant headache...