Word: sales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...95th Congress, Carter was able to count on the occasional, indispensable services of Minority Leader Howard Baker. Without Baker, the Panama Canal treaties would not have been ratified, the Turkish arms embargo lifted or the three-way Middle East weapons sale approved. But Baker may no longer be able to come to the aid of the President. No sooner were the election results apparent than conservative Republicans started plotting to take over at least some of the leadership positions in the Senate, including a challenge by Helms for on-floor leadership. Taking no chances, Baker dashed back to Washington...
...find a way to pay a $13 million debt owed to the Cleveland Electricity Illuminating Co. The privately owned utility sells power to the public Municipal Light Co., which resells it to 46,000 customers. Last spring C.E.I, got federal marshals to begin tagging pieces of city property for sale at auction to satisfy the bill. The private utility has offered to buy out Muny Light, but Kucinich has refused, arguing that it provides a competitive check that curbs rate hikes by C.E.I...
...treasury regula tions. In exchange, Luyt testified, he pledged as publisher of the Citizen to support editorially the government's apartheid policies. But, Luyt said, he soon tired of Eschel Rhoodie's incessant efforts to meddle in its affairs. In February, the department helped arrange a sale of Luyt's interest in the Citizen to businessmen including Dallas Lawyer David A. Witts and Beurt SerVaas, chairman of the Curtis Publishing Co. Luyt has yet to repay the loan or $3.3 million in interest...
...good to see the Times back on sale again," an elderly gentleman amid a crowd of early-morning buyers at the Out of Town Newsstand said yesterday. Sale of the Times was still brisk by mid-afternoon, and one employee at Out of Town estimated that 2200 copies of the Times would be sold...
...glad to see the paper back because a lot of Times readers will buy nothing else," James Finn, supervisor of the stand said yesterday. While he declined to release any circulation figures, Finn said the sale of the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal did not match the daily sale of Times before the strike, which began August...