Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...yesterday, told a news conference Monday that the union request included a 44-per-cent salary increase over the next three years and would lead to tuition increases of $350 next year and $100 for each of two succeeding years. These increases would "price Boston University out of the market," Silber said...
...Tengelmann is not shopping for cheap hamburger and canned corn to ship back to Germany. Erivan Haub, 46, the hereditary sole owner of the company, noted that he saw in A & P "an opening to the U.S. market where Tengelmann experience can be put to profitable use." Haub, who trained with the Chicago-based Jewel supermarket chain, promised to stay out of day-to-day operations and hinted, to the delight of A & P directors, that he might supply much needed capital. A full hands-off policy is neither likely nor desirable. Noted one U.S. food-chain executive in Hamburg...
Moderates and militants alike remained committed to the use of terrorism against the Israelis, and in fact a minor wave of violence continued throughout the week. In Jerusalem, for example, a grenade exploded in an open-air market, injuring a score of Israeli shoppers. Citing recent terrorist activity, the Israelis staged two military strikes against Palestinian bases in southern Lebanon...
Across the flat Midwest farm lands, electricity and telephone lines snapped like dry spaghetti. Hundreds of cattle froze to death, and dairy farmers were forced to dump oceans of milk they could not get to market. In Lake Michigan, two Coast Guard cutters were trapped by giant ice floes. A 220-mile-long ice jam closed the Missouri River from Atchison, Kans., to Blair, Neb., backing up water and causing flooding in some places...
...field of battle remained three corporations - General Sexotics, Cybordelics, and Intercourse International. When the production of these giants was at its peak, sex, from a private amusement, a spectator sport, group gymnastics, a hobby, and a collector's market, turned into a philosophy of civilization. McLuhan, who as a hale and hearty old codger had lived to see these times, argued in his Genitocracy that this precisely was the destiny of mankind from the moment it entered on the path of technology; that even the ancient rowers, chained to the galleys, and the woodsmen of the North with their...