Word: sell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student, I was greatly disheartened by Rockefeller's scheme to sell reproductions of his collection [Dec. 18]. I work hard on my original pieces. Yet how can I compete with timeless entities such as Rodin or Modigliani? These "clone"' collectors don't want art-they want status symbols. Why don't they buy a Mercedes instead? At least they can drive that...
...findings for the use of all physicians in the treatment of all patients. If the FTC puts physicians in the position of price competition by destroying their ethical ban on advertising, they should expect that a physician who develops an effective new treatment will keep it a secret and sell it to the highest bidder rather than publish it for the use of all. I do not believe that to be a wise exchange...
...abruptly changed the situation by, among other things, extending federal price controls to so-called intrastate gas. That has made it just as profitable for a driller in, say, Oklahoma to sell his gas to a pipeline company that will transport it to Michigan as to a customer that will use it to generate electricity or heat a factory in Tulsa. This in turn has made available an estimated 1 trillion additional cubic feet of the fuel for sale in states such as Ohio, Indiana, and New Jersey, where it is needed most. One trillion cubic feet is roughly equal...
...right back after a message about a white tornado, white lightning or white people." The lyrics both serve as a warning and a motivation to become involved. As for proof of any sixth sense, that doesn't exist either. In "Madison Avenue," Scott-Heron says "They can sell sand to a man livin' in the desert/They can sell tuna to the chicken of the sea." There's nothing psychic but there is something sensitive in stating the truth...
...have minded if they put something intelligent in my mouth, but it sounded like third-rate beatnik poetry." Adds Novelist Ken Kesey, another friend of the trio: "I believe in dead rights, that no one has a right to mess with a guy, use Humphrey Bogart to sell batteries on TV, just because he's dead...