Word: sales
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...doctors and lawyers, would have to display "appropriate" fluency to obtain licenses to practice. Corporations, traditionally dominated by Quebec's English-speaking elite, would be monitored by a government board to ensure that French became their "language of work." One section of the bill would even forbid the sale of toys or games requiring "use of a non-French vocabulary for their operation" unless a French-language version was available as well...
Camps for Sale. Last week the Justice Department complained to the ICC that the charges could be as much as $2 too high. If the commission orders a cut, it would benefit not the consumer but the state of Alaska. The consumer will probably wind up paying the same price as for imported oil, now $13.50 per bbl. If the pipeline tariff goes down, the companies that own the line can make up most of the difference by paying their producing subsidiaries a higher price at the wellhead to pump the oil out of the North Slope. And their arrangement...
...weekly wages of $1,000 and more. The high pay kept labor strife down but drove pipeline costs up. As Assistant Secretary Martin acknowledges, "The pipeline traded money for time." Some $250 million worth of campsites along the route have been shut down and put up for sale. Only about 1,000 people will continue to manage the line and the drilling equipment at Prudhoe...
...riding down the freeway when I heard on the radio that this little place I'd never heard of was for sale, and the Lord made it known to me that this is where we should go and do his work. The "little place" that...
Stephen had no intention of founding a new business, but 26 years later, after steady but unspectacular sales, his grill has caught fire. It is one of the fastest-selling outdoor cookers in the country, and Stephen's factory in Arlington Heights, Ill., is humming trying to keep up with demand. Though the Weber Barbeque Kettle costs more than many competing models (the suggested retail price is about $80 for the 22½-m. version), sale's are increasing at 25% to 40% a year; in 1976 they reached more than $20 million. The grills are catching...