Word: sell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston University trustees voted yesterday to sell $6.6 million of B.U.'s portfolio investments that do not permit it to vote as a shareholder and influence corporate policy in South Africa...
...Sell Common Stock...
...years old, its Beacon Street building needs repairs, and the demon inflation looms large. But just because the Smithsonian has $5 million to spend on two more portraits for the endless corridors of nameless faces in the National Portrait Gallery, doesn't mean the Atheneum should sell the portraits right out from under the MFA which has had them on loan since...
...President Nixon's desperation move to clamp controls on beef prices in 1973 that caused much of today's shortages and high prices. Though cattle producers' prices were frozen, their overhead costs continued to rise. Many could not afford to feed their animals and had to sell off large numbers just to stay solvent. As more beef came onto the market, prices briefly fell. But the size of the nation's herds also plummeted from 132 million cattle in 1975 to the present 110 million -and prices rebounded with a vengeance...
Once a cattleman chooses to keep rather than sell his heifers, the long, three-year breeding cycle begins. A heifer born this spring cannot be bred for another 15 months. This is followed by a nine-month gestation period. Since most producers like to breed their cows twice before sending them to market, this spring's newborn calf will not be ready for slaughter until early 1982. Only then are prices likely to ease. Says Alfred Kahn, the White House inflation adviser: "While ranchers are rebuilding their herds, prices will probably stay well above 1978 levels for the next...