Word: sales
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...clapboard churches and meeting halls, the talk is all about body auras, universal grids, Jastram's entities, and illnesses that seem beyond the ministrations of ordinary medicine. At the dowsing convention headquarters in the Danville town hall, piles of books on the occult are offered for sale, from the works of Edgar Cayce to studies of UFOs and the Bermuda Triangle. Dowsing buffs can also buy every kind of tool, from little plastic rods (at $1 a pair) to miraculous electronic black boxes (price: $65) that purportedly "discharge toxic vibrations from your mind, emotions and etheric body." Explains Raymond...
...prosperous sidewalk cafe in Yamit, was infuriated by the way Jerusalem had reversed its support. "For ten years the government brainwashed me," she complained. "Now in two weeks they tell me the whole doctrine has gone down the drain. This is a sellout, and we are the ones on sale." Watching children play ring-around-a-rosy in the sandy yard of a nearby school, Sara Cohen softly expressed another of Yamit's objections: "If we knew that peace would be secure, it would be easier. But we're very suspicious...
...port for the U.S. Seventh Fleet, has a permanent base force of 8,000-swollen by as many as 9,000 sailors passing through on shore leave. Much of their contribution to the local economy is made in the honky-tonk town of Olongapo, where the principal commodity for sale is sex. About 15,000 Olongapo residents are registered "bar girls," many of them infected with a penicillin-resistant strain of gonorrhea known as "Viet Nam Rose." According to Navy estimates, American sailors spent $128 million in Olongapo last year-not all of it, of course, on recreational...
...program has hurt exports. Given the generally accepted rule of thumb that every $1 billion in exports supports 30,000 to 40,000 jobs, the cost of the various official "disincentives" to trade is high. Treasury officials reckon that the U.S. loses up to $10 billion a year in sales because of various foreign policy considerations. The Jackson-Vanik amendment to the 1974 Trade Act, for example, denies the most-favored-nation status to the Soviet Union because of its reluctance to grant sufficient emigration visas to Soviet Jews. Moscow claims such restrictions have cost the U.S. $2 billion...
...additional $10, attorneys will write routine letters or make simple phone calls for customers. Sold also are a variety of "packages," telephone advice and preparation of forms used for simple wills ($30), changes of name ($75) and uncontested divorces ($125). These and step-parent adoptions ($75) are the hottest sale items...