Word: productively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First, we would like to correct the notion that Southwestern salesmen are unethical. A salesman who misrepresents himself or his product could conceivably make a few extra sales--before getting caught and thrown in jail. But whether an individual salesman acts ethically or not is his decision alone. Each Southwestern salesman agrees, in writing, "to operate in his own way, within his designated territory, in selling books published by the company," and that "Dealer shall be free to exercise his own judgement as to time, place, and manner of selling books purchased under this contract, within the territory designated...
...after months of hearings, the Federal Trade Commission has moved to end this nightmare. In a ruling earlier this month, the agency decreed that a holder in due course is responsible for the merchandise, that a consumer can stop payment on a faulty product-and that all that has to be spelled out in bold type on the installment contract.* Consumers may still be sued by holders in due course for payment, but they now have a legal basis for defending themselves. The move will not prevent shoddy merchandise from reaching the marketplace. But since no bank or finance company...
...Mercedes. One might expect to see them at the Beverly Hills Hotel, or perhaps a drive-in movie in Kuwait-but at a factory's employee parking lot? Ah, but the factory belongs to the German automaker Daimler-Benz, whose employees may buy the company's prestigious product at a 21.5% discount. Last year Daimler-Benz's 129,000 workers snapped up 40,000 Mercedes, or 11.4% of total output. After one year, employees are free to resell their cars on the open market. These days they often get 10% more than they paid-and then turn...
...commercial campaign. If that did not bring the record companies to their knees, promised Lemongello's banker friend, it would be on to Chicago and Texas and Florida: "We'll take him to eight or twelve cities, if necessary, to give people a chance to buy our product...
...When I came in," Moses told TIME's Edward Tivnan, "my feeling was that Lerner and Bernstein had three years or so to bring out their product. The result was Philadelphia. I had no sympathy for what didn't work. Whatever I thought was too long, too laborious, too repetitive, not theatrical enough, I cut." Lerner, Bernstein and even the producers were barred from some rehearsals. Moses complained about "superficiality" in the book; Lerner, having begun the project in outrage over Nixon Administration excesses, found himself holed up in the Watergate Hotel rewriting far into the night...