Word: sales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Corporations like Federated think they can prove themselves responsible to the community by handing thousands to charities--concerned consumers should let them know that continued promotion and sale of Stevens linens belies their claim of being socially conscientious members of our community. Andrew Kahn...
...order, for ten short-range A310s (with options for ten more), is the largest it has ever made. Lufthansa's purchase of 25 of the planes (and options for an additional 25) is the biggest order the decade-old consortium has landed. Equally significant, the sale marks the end of Lufthansa's overwhehning dependence on Boeing. Said Lufthansa Chairman Herbert Culmann: "We have no interest in turning a giant into a colossus...
...they could often do favors for the White House. Early in 1978, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance called to elicit business pressure on Congress for the Panama Canal treaty, also during the 95th Congress another Cabinet-level official came to a Business Council meeting to request pressure in the sale of F-15 fighter planes to Saudi Arabia...
...Toxic Cloud documents, not enough action has yet been taken: "The regulatory process that is supposed to govern the use of the herbicide can be described as almost stalled, having been impeded by disagreement among scientists, by the determination of the chemical manufacturing industry to continue production and sale of the herbicide, by bureaucratic backing and filling . . . and by the Government's own indecisiveness." Nor has there been much concern about the 1976 catastrophe that ruined the Italian town of Seveso, or about discovery of the poison in a chemical soup found in a landfill near Niagara Falls...
Such an ad might be penned to describe a collection of "documentary comic books," the first of which went on sale this week in U.S. college and trade bookstores. Already selling briskly in Europe and Latin America, the cheeky seriocomics treat great thinkers with snappy drawings and humorous cartoon panels, presumably to appeal to the generation and others intimidated by reading the originals. "We're combining the popular Donald Duck form with serious intellectual thought," argues Pantheon Books' Tom Engelhardt, U.S. editor of the series' first title, the 158-page Marx for Beginners...