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Word: pricedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vietnamization. Rick Byers, 28, is a supersalesman who stumbled into real estate. He makes it all sound simple: "All there is to real estate is running your mouth a bit, knocking on doors and asking people if they want to sell their house. I could take any wino off Fifth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hot New Rich | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

A Viet Nam veteran who employs 30 Vietvets as salesmen, Byers in the past four years has sold more houses than any other real estate agent in the county. A bachelor, he inhabits some fancy real estate of his own in Newport Beach and several days a month jets off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hot New Rich | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

Next on the Carter-Strauss trade agenda is an agreement on the shoe problem, which politically is even more explosive than TV sets. Says one White House official: "TV has maybe two dozen Senators. Shoes have 80 Senators." Since 1968, lower-priced imported shoes have captured 46% of the U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Waging a Case-by-Case War | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

The merger makes sense. Because of rocketing wage costs (up 40% in two years to $6.33 per hour) and excessive absenteeism rates (as high as 20% on any given day), Sweden's cars are being priced out of the world market. The merger will strengthen the Swedish auto industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Volkswagen's Herr Fix-It | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

Even without promotional fanfare, about 2 million bottles of Perrier are sold in the U.S. each year, mostly to discriminating, well-heeled "Perrier freaks," who are willing to hunt down the drink in expensive gourmet shops and pay a dollar or more for a 23-oz. bottle. One of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETING: Perrier in Six-Packs | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

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