Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...needs all the energy that it can possibly get from within its own borders, and a NASA-or Manhattan Project-type effort would signal to OPEC's price gougers that their days of unrestricted domination and tyranny over the world's biggest single market for oil are coming...
Evans damaged his reputation last year when, in a study for business lobbyists, he predicted that the stock market would rise 40% over two years if the capital gains tax were reduced from 49% to 25%. That far-out conclusion only bolstered critics, who charge that Evans sometimes cooks the books to come up with results favorable to his clients. Then Evans called Federal Reserve Board Chairman William Miller "a tool of the Administration." Chase decided that it had had enough and early this year agreed to buy Evans...
Around the world, the siren song of socialism appears to be losing its lure. Countries as diverse as Britain and France, Peru and Algeria are moving away from the creed of nationalization and toward freer market economics. None has shifted quite so far, so quickly, as Sri Lanka, the verdant island nation off the coast of India that the world still knows as Ceylon. Reports TIME Correspondent Ross H. Munro...
Despite problems over lack of paved roads, running water and communications, six factories have already been set up and more are abuilding. Some will make work gloves, tea bags and latex rubber threads, but most will produce garments for the U.S. market. Indeed, many companies have been attracted because the U.S. does not yet impose import quotas on Sri Lankan garments. Typically, Jeffrey Bogatin, owner of a New York-based garment business, was attracted by wage costs of 73? an hour and a five-year tax holiday. Says he: "I'm shocked that there is not more...
Some community officials, including tenant organizer David Sullivan, said the University should refrain from taking the rent-controlled units off the housing market...