Word: oversold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parking office is considering an oversubscription plan similar to the one in use for the commuter lot at the Business School. The plan would mean selling more spaces than are available to insure the most efficient use of space, Gilfix said. The number of spaces oversold would be less than 10 per cent of the lot's capacity...
...Scots--like the English--have been oversold on North Sea Oil and confidently expect it to solve all their problems. Certainly it will bring a measure of prosperity to a wilted economy. But oil production will not reach its full potential until 1980, and the Scots as well as the English will need help before then if things continue to deteriorate...
...Nixon's resignation. Then it dropped 20 points Thursday and Friday, to close the week at 777. One reason: an explosive rise in wholesale prices (see box next page) that gave fresh evidence of how difficult inflation will be to defeat. But brokers widely feel that the long-oversold stock market is about to enjoy at least a short-term psychological rise that might push the Dow to 830 or 850 before heavy profit taking pulls it back...
Behind his argument is a large body of British opinion that the benefits of membership in the Common Market have been oversold. Many Britons believe that the 13.6% jump in the cost of food last year can be blamed directly on the subsidies that French farmers collect under the EEC's Common Agricultural Policy. Beyond that, there is a visceral feeling that Britain ought not to be part of Europe, at least for the moment. According to a recent Gallup poll, 51% of all Britons surveyed thought it was wrong for their country to join the Common Market. Among...
Yablans scoffs at the notion that the heavy promotion might hurt Gatsby. "No matter what we do, the film will stand on its own merits," he says. "My only concern is not whether we've oversold it, but rather about the intellectual, purist approach the critics might take. I sense," he adds darkly, "that some of them have a real you-better-show-me attitude...