Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left the state "neutral" in real estate dealings. Its terms were the terms of personal freedom in the use and disposition of private property. It also wiped out the provisions of the Unruh and Rumford acts, which banned racial discrimination in the renting of apartments and in the sale or rental of private dwellings containing more than four units. By an overwhelming vote of almost 2 to 1, the electorate approved Proposition 14, which became Section 26 of the California constitution...
...Philip Levin's battle with MGM is now more than a year old and far from over), tender offers generally click or flop within a fortnight. One reason: stockbrokers find them particularly profitable since under New York Stock Exchange rules they get a double commission, once on the sale by the investor and again on the purchase by the bidder...
...transformed into a living torch before my eyes as he hesitated to leap from a high window," said Fireman Jacques Mesmans. Others, luckier, landed atop parked cars and escaped with bruises and broken bones. Amid the panic, the flames climbed to the roof, where bottles of butane gas for sale to campers sealed the building's fate with a staccato of explosions...
...Andrews, who added, "Tens of thousands of people a day pass through on the minitrain to see what America is like. And what do they see? They see Liz Taylor, who's not even a citizen any more. It wasn't a soft sell; it was no sale...
Calling Stevens a liar, Miss Frick sought to enjoin further sale and publication of the book-an effort that most lawyers viewed as doomed. After all, historians have freely depicted dead persons as they pleased throughout U.S. history. All the same, Miss Frick sued under a 1944 Pennsylvania precedent defining a libel as a publication "tending either to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or the reputation of one who is alive." Though rare, statutes in several states make defamation of the dead a crime. The possibilities of a Frick victory alarmed historians across the country...