Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...replies overwhelmed the ballot counters, who reported that sentiment solidly supported sharp cuts in all taxes-property, sales and income. The Boston Herald American in a similar poll found that about 80% of responding readers backed a proposal to place a lid on property taxes at 2.5% of market value. A bill to do just that was introduced in the Massachusetts legislature by four Republican lawmakers...
Detroit's subcompacts did well against the imports, whose prices rose as the dollar sank relative to other currencies. Models such as Chrysler's Omni, Chevy's Chevette and Ford's Mustang II cut into foreign makers' share of the U.S. market and drove it down from 21% in January...
With all the increases, French price rises this year will almost certainly return to double digits, up from 9% in 1977. But Barre, a devout believer in the free market in a country sadly short of such sentiment, is convinced that within a year or two his latest moves will reduce France's inflation to that of its more successful neighbors. He notes that countries without controls generally have more stable prices-for example, Germany with a rate of 2.7% and Switzerland with 1.7%. Austria, the Benelux countries and even Britain have also done better than France lately. Although...
...long ago a Belgian businessman wanted the European marketing rights for a new U.S. machine tool. After several of his letters went unanswered, he flew out to see the manufacturer, who told him: "We don't export -it's too much trouble." Unlike the aggressive, go-anywhere Yankee traders of old, modern American businessmen have long had at their doorstep the richest market on earth and felt far less pressure than their foreign counterparts to seek exports. But that could be changing...
...befits one of America's most elegant writers about food, she has compiled loving evocations of great restaurants, memorable meals and, particularly, the briny-fresh seafood: sardines, sea urchins and shrimps that pass in mighty shoals each night through the city's venerable fish market. The author is also a shrewd observer of the turf, from the garish 1,000-year-old Canebière, the broad boulevard known to generations of English-speaking sailors as the "Can o' Beer," to the Old Port and Notre Dame de la Garde, "the Old Gold Lady...