Word: sell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Charlie Stallone, an independent owner-operator from Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (the sign on his T shirt reads SMOKE COLOMBIAN), explains: "Drivers smoke pot to unwind. You've been running ten hours through ice and snow. You're wired. You pull into a stop. They don't sell beer or whisky, so you light up a joint and go to sleep." Those who smoke when driving, adds Stallone, don't do it to get stoned...
...under construction when Schlesinger abruptly vetoed the deal because Mexico's price of $2.60 per 1,000 cu. ft. was higher than the $2.16 being charged by Canadian suppliers. López Portillo vowed to burn off the gas and leave the oil in the ground rather than sell it to the U.S. The pipeline was rerouted to the industrial city of Monterrey, and as a further gesture of defiance, the Mexicans decided to inaugurate the "gasduct" on March 18, the 41st anniversary of Mexico's nationalization of its oil fields...
...Lowered U.S. barriers to Mexican agricultural products and manufactured goods. Mexico already is the fourth largest U.S. trading partner and wants to sell even more to the north. U.S. restrictions on winter vegetables, which fluctuate according to domestic harvests, are a particular sore point. But any changes in U.S. trade policies would be opposed by U.S. unions and, in the case of winter vegetables, by farmers in California and the South. Moreover, U.S. businessmen would demand that Mexico reciprocate by lowering its trade barriers...
...declared that no area of Government involved such a multitude of self-centered interests: "Every Congressman on the Hill has a gasoline station on some corner that he wants taken care of." Telling Americans to cut down on energy, he shrugged, is not easy. "I'm trying to sell an unpleasant future by offering pain today...
Magnavox, which has been marketing a $695 videodisc player in Atlanta since December and plans to introduce it in other cities this year, has already assembled a list of 202 recorded discs; they include 108 movies, among them Animal House, Jaws 2 and House Calls, which sell for a top price of $15.95. RCA plans to launch a less expensive system (about $400) next year and is also building up a library of similarly priced films, as well as concerts and opera performances...