Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people who are becoming rich are the stock market players: Resorts International's stock soared from $20 a share in March to a recent high of $96½. The company has invested some of its new capital by purchasing the Seeburg line of slot machines and Atlantic City's famed Steel Pier. The shares of two other firms that plan to open casinos in Atlantic City are also rising fast: Bally Manufacturing Co., which makes slot and pinball machines, from a low earlier this year of $15 to $38 last week, and Caesars World, from...
Finding their newly discovered stela too heavy to cart away intact, the thieves cut it into six pieces with chain saws. Then, along with the rest of their booty, they load the chunks onto burros and head for the border. Within days their contraband enters the flourishing black market in pre-Columbian antiquities, to be bought by rich collectors in the U.S., Western Europe or Japan...
...many as 15,000 bargain hunters cram the market's six acres each weekend, rummaging through wares displayed at 400 stalls, haggling with sellers and walking away with treasures-and junk-of every description. Fuzzy stuffed animals and live parrots. Miniature Japanese pagodas and bonsai trees. Madonna and child statuettes. Sea shells and natural sponges. "This," exults Mary Wright, "is the last bastion of free enterprise. My God, what a business...
Although the new law goes into effect on January 1, Congress granted colleges and universities a three-and-one-half-year grace period to study implications for young Ph.D. holders, who would be in the academic job market...
...company has added some 8,000 workers to help build the new superjets, it wants to avoid another boom-bust cycle. Boeing's first choice for a partner would be British Aircraft Corp., which would give the new planes a European flavor and make them easier to market within the European Community. So far, the British have not decided whether to join Boeing or Airbus. The United decision may give them a nudge...