Word: sales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rumormongering, a major industry in Beirut, brought worldwide fame last November to Hassan Sabra, 44, editor of ash-Shiraa, when his weekly exposed the secret sale of U.S. arms to Iran. Last week the journalist fell victim to another of the Lebanese capital's employment specialties, terrorism...
...university first announced plans for divestment in 1985, and completed the sale of its more than $39 million in holdings before its October deadline. The university still holds about $25 million worth of foreign stock, but the trustees did not require the sale of these holdings...
...when a disgruntled Japanese trading-company employee who helped with the sale wrote a whistle-blowing statement that found its way to MITI. The agency's initial probe made no headway, since Toshiba Machine's executives stuck so uniformly to their phony story. Inside the company, a full-scale cover-up was under way, in which employees incinerated documents by tossing them into factory furnaces. When the allegations were finally leaked to the press last March, MITI was compelled to send the police, who grilled employees until the truth emerged...
Even in clear-cut racial cases, Bork hesitates to wield the equal protection clause when it conflicts with majority wishes. He has criticized the court for striking down a provision added by referendum to the California state constitution that would have allowed discrimination in the sale or leasing of property...
...burgeoning demand for princely quarters has caused house prices to surge in many exclusive towns, especially on the East and West coasts. The average sale price of a home in Bradbury, Calif., a Los Angeles suburb, has in the past year gone from $459,000 to $610,000, according to a survey by the nationwide broker network of RELO, a Chicago-based relocation service. In Greenwich, Conn., northeast of Manhattan, the average cost has skyrocketed incredibly, from $467,500 to $1.2 million since the summer of 1986. Prices are not rising that fast in heartland suburbs, but almost every region...