Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program plots a return to the economic reforms designed by Economist Ota Šik, who has been nominated for one of five Deputy Premier posts in the new government. Slowed down under the regime of ex-Party Boss Antonín Novotný, the reforms place faith in market determination of prices, competition among enterprises, more incentives for workers and less bureaucratic control. The program proclaims that inefficient workers and factories will not be rewarded and that the consumer must be protected against high prices and inferior goods caused by "the monopoly position" of state enterprises...
Rising hope for peace in Viet Nam last week gave the stock market another explosive lift. For the third time in two weeks, trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange spurted to a new daily record: 20,410,000 shares on April 10. Even with trading cut to three days by suspensions for Martin Luther King's funeral and Good Friday, the Dow-Jones industrial average rose 39.88 points to make a two-week gain of 65.02. It was the sharpest rally of the decade, and it hoisted the index of 30 blue-chip industrial shares...
...rebounding "peace market" drew much of its surprising strength from heavy buying by institutions- he mutual funds, pension funds, speculative "hedge" funds, insurance companies and trusts that usually stay on the sidelines during Wall Street's emotional spasms. This time the funds scrambled to rein vest their record hoard of idle cash...
...first quarter of 1968, and March sales indicated that there are still better days ahead. After six months of the model year, Plymouth's Fury is some 30,000 units ahead of last year's model, and all Dodge models are doing well. Chrysler's market penetration was up two percentage points to 17.5%, chiefly because sales of Plymouth's intermediate Belvedere have climbed substantially...
This Smurtz is specifically a walking directorial comment, carrying a special and limited message: behind these three acts of comic and pathetic folly are the forces of materialism and cultural prostitution. Shuman does his turn admirably. Looking for all the world like an afternoon at the Broadway Super-Market, he graphically mimes both pain and self-absorption. But at the point in the third act when he and Hamlin finally stand face to face, no amount of individual stagecraft can forestall the recognition that they are acting in different plays. Hamlin, for better or whose, is playing a text about...