Word: sell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Manufacturers are fine-tuning prices to help meet the federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (or CAFE) standard of 19 m.p.g. for each company's entire line of cars in model year '79. The trick is to sell enough of the mini and subcompact models, averaging 28 to 30 m.p.g., to offset the heavier cars that get only 11 or 12 m.p.g...
Meanwhile, many farmers share the opinion of one weather-grizzled Georgia farmer: "Let's don't let them get by with buying our land, but don't stop it yet, not until I can sell mine." Adds William Wisenbaker, who farms several hundred acre near Lake Park, Ga.: "If any of them fellas with long robes come around, I'm gonna give them a wide berth. That is, unless they're carrying so much money I can't turn them down...
...surest way to expand exports, says he, is to sell more to the developing countries. "The new frontiers, the fastest-growing markets are there. We are in a helluva struggle with the Germans, the Japanese and others for those markets. We desperately need the minerals and the resources of the developing countries. We need to find new forms of enterprise, new methods of operating, some innovative approaches that will answer their needs as well as our needs...
...masterful marketing of such convenience foods as Birds Eye frozen vegetables, Tang breakfast drink and Maxwell House instant coffee. Though he helped build General Foods into the world's largest processed food company, with annual sales of $1.5 billion, Mortimer knew his industry's limits. "You cannot sell me on some new food called 'Glatsky' that will have all the nutrients of steak," he once said. "I want my steak...
...Hirsch) and grant his title to his grandson Dave (Eric Roberts). This young man is more interested in joining the American mainstream than he is in defending the traditional way of life, though he hates his father, if anything, more than his grandfather does. When his father attempts to sell Dave's young sister into marriage, the youth turns violently patricidal. The community hides his crime from ever befuddled authority and, in the end, Roberts accepts the medallion and ring that symbolize leadership of this little stateless state...