Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...complete is IBM's line of 14 computers, ranging from the compact 1440 (average monthly rent: $2,600) to the huge 7090 ($63,000 monthly), that competitors can find no chinks in its armor. IBM's army of salesmen is the industry's best paid-incomes average $16,000 to $20.000 a year-and most numerous. Complains Dr. Louis T. Rader, president of Sperry-Rand's Univac division: "It doesn't do much good to build a better mousetrap if the other guy selling mousetraps has five times as many salesmen...
...eight months since the 14-nation Geneva conference established Laotian neutrality last summer, neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma's left-right-center coalition government has displayed a remarkable record of consistency: it has failed to carry out one single provision of the Geneva accords. Rent by internal dissension, the government has been unable to maintain a ceasefire, evict all foreign military personnel from Laos, integrate the three military and political factions, or hold free elections. But the supposedly "neutralist" government has recognized every country in the Communist bloc, and has done so little to halt the rampant inflation that...
Visitors who choose to rent instead of build or buy can get away for less ($3,000 for the season), but find themselves dissatisfied. Said one American matron last week, "I just rented a chalet for the season this time, but next year I'm going to take it all year. It's such trouble having to store my ski clothes." In addition to the fulltime chalet dwellers (most of whom maintain at least one other home base, ranging in location and social prestige from the Riviera to Florida), Gstaad harbors a large class of doting parents...
...Rent-a-car has become a part of the U.S. businessman's language. But now it is car leasing, most commonly for a two-year period, that is getting an increasing share of the play. In the past five years, the number of cars under lease has doubled to more than 600,000 and created a new industry that takes in $750 million a year. The market for leasing looks so promising that some 3,000 companies have gone into the business. Some do nothing else, such as Baltimore's Peterson, Howell & Heather, Chicago's Wheels...
...everyone approves of the way Tony does business. A federal grand jury has charged that he violated the Taft-Hartley Act by living rent free in a $26,000 home provided by a trucking firm. Nor was there complete agreement on Tony's raise. At the meeting-attended by no more than 400 of the local's 14,000 members-40 Teamsters were against Tony in a stand-up vote. One challenged him to submit the raise to a secret ballot of all members. In retrospect, Tony himself seemed to be having second thoughts about whether he should...