Word: sales
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...which is the first major product that the fledgling biotechnology industry has developed for agriculture. The hormone has been used in several West European nations, the Soviet Union and South Africa. But opposition is intense. The European Parliament, for example, has recommended that its member countries prohibit the sale of meat or milk from BST-treated cows, and two provinces in Canada have temporarily halted the distribution of such products. In the U.S. the Food and Drug Administration is considering whether to approve the use of BST amid rising protests from concerned dairy states. Wisconsin's agriculture secretary has proposed...
...timely move is being led by Societe Suisse de Microelectronique et d'Horlogerie, originator of the popular quartz Swatch Watch. The company has - produced six prototypes of a mechanical, self-winding version of the Swatch, which will probably go on sale next year for about $40. Though quartz models constituted 90% of Swiss-made watches last year, the mechanical versions could account for half of all sales...
...Several pieces of abandoned wicker furniture are reported outside Pier 1 I Imports on Eliot St. Cambridge police find several hundred dollars-worth of furniture outside the store. An officer speculates the objects are sale items put outside during the day and forgotten. The manager is responding to lock up the "sidewalk sale" merchandise, the officer says...
...perception that their neighborhoods are being offered on international markets far removed from local buyers. The unease crested last December, when condominium units developed in Vancouver by Li were snapped up in Hong Kong within 2 1/2 hours of the offering -- before they were even put up for sale in Canada. Says Susan Alexander, a member of a local group that is demanding stiffer government controls on foreign real estate buyers: "Our housing is being treated like a commodity on the stock exchange." Alexander is being evicted from a three-story, 20-unit apartment complex that will be replaced...
...surplus soybean oil. Says one agribusiness executive: "What Gorbachev wants to do is fill up his stores and put something on the shelves fast. A housewife who can't find cooking oil is in a hell of a fix." This expert insists that the White House has nixed the sale, and adds, "Gorbachev is going to view it as a hostile...