Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cities, particularly Port-au-Prince with its 250,000 inhabitants, are the most sordid parts of Haiti. In the sprawling market places, you have to breathe through your mouth to avoid the smell and clench your teeth so the flies can't get in. Beggars are everywhere and swarm around you. Children follow you holding out their hands for money. A cripple throws himself in your path, clinging shakily to his crutch, and without saying a word expresses the horror of human degradation...
...harsh reality of this market place economy is stagnation. There are no signs of progress, and most American officials see little hope of it. American corporations have invested $55 million dollars in Haiti, but their effect on the economy has been negligible. Only a flour mill, which imports its wheat from the States, sells in the Haitian markets. The other products--coffee, bauxite, and sugar--are all for export...
...same kind of joy and spontaneity springs from the market places, despite the squalor, the smell, and the flies. On market day, the people rise before dawn to assemble their wares and carry them, in great bundles on their heads, to the villages. The market place becomes a meeting place where people find their friends, catch up on the news, and exchange their goods. They will bargain furiously over prices, not so much out of bitterness as with an exuberant sense of play...
Siemens must export to survive; the domestic market simply will not support the company's huge research expenses, which last year amounted to $140 million. Its communications research center in Munich has 4,330 scientists; at the Erlangen lab near Nürnberg, 500 nuclear technicians made possible the Argentine generator sale. While most European firms depend upon American processes and patents, Siemens has sold $50 million more patent rights since the war than it has bought. If asked about the so-called technology gap between Europe and the U.S., Erwin Hachmann, 55, a member of Siemens' three...
...bookshops but in author-publisher contracts, with their imaginative use of the top row of the typewriter keyboard-where the $ and % signs snuggle in compelling proximity. The principal practitioners of this profitable art are literary agents, the canny manipulators of today's flourishing writer's market. Authors and publishers alike agree that it is the agent who deserves the traditional flyleaf salute to the person without whose aid, comfort, understanding, affection, patience, encouragement and hard-eyed business sense this book could not have been sold...