Word: pricedness
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...