Word: sell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hilltop retreat overlooking the Pyramids, on the outskirts of Cairo. Sadat seated Strauss at the evening session so that while he talked the Ambassador would have a compelling view of the Pyramids, illuminated by a bright harvest moon. Strauss later informed Carter: "Under those conditions, whatever Sadat had to sell, I would have bought...
...orphan, huddled between the father figures of the Venetian cinquecento-Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto-and the effervescent grandeur of the Tiepolos in the 18th century. Even today, when scholarship and the art market have opened every mass grave in search of something to write about and sell, the names of painters like Damiano Mazza or Alessandro Turchi do not make the pulse race...
...slice of Ho Jo's apple pie. But now the Boston-based Howard Johnson chain of restaurants and motor lodges is going British, at least in terms of ownership. Chairman Howard B. Johnson, 47, announced last week that an agreement in principle had been reached to sell the chain's 1,040 restaurants and 520 motor lodges to Imperial Group Ltd., a tobacco, food, beer and packaging conglomerate whose famous brands include Players cigarettes and Harp lager. The bundle from Britain will be $630 million, or about $28 per share for each of the U.S. firm...
...Radcliffe trustees had agreed last year to sell the 20,000 shares of stock when their price reached $30 a share, Robert H. Gardiner '37, Radcliffe treasurer, said earlier this week. Radcliffe bought the stock for $17 a share, he added...
Private farmers are still a large force in Cuban agriculture, working 19 per cent of the land and producing 30 per cent of the tobacco, 25 per cent of the sugar, and 40 per cent of the fruit crop. So far, the decision to sell has been a totally voluntary one. Nevertheless, because an independent farmer can sell his produce only to the government, which unilaterally sets prices, the state can make a community like Jibacoa a farmer's only viable economic alternative. It seems clear that the state eventually plans to control all agricultural production...