Word: sell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...invade Taiwan. In the Shanghai communique, Peking insisted that it had the right to liberate Taiwan. Mainland China, Teng now told the Ad ministration, will seek reunification, but slowly, peacefully, and in a manner that will not disrupt Taiwan's capitalistic economic system. The U.S. will continue to sell Taiwan "selective defensive weapon ry"?which might include interceptor air craft, artillery, and antitank weapons. Said Carter, during an unusual visit to the White House press room after his speech: "The interests of Taiwan have been ad equately protected...
They are the only ones. This year, RSO will sell more than $300 million worth of records. Al Coury spearheaded the runaway success of the Grease and Saturday Night Fever sound tracks, making them two of the alltime Top Ten albums. He insists that the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band sound track package will sell 4.6 million units. For 42 weeks of 1978, RSO albums occupied the top slot on the charts. During one of those weeks, the RSO logo?a benign, bright red castrated bull?graced the labels on three of the top five albums. During...
Coury's major gifts, as he would be the first to concede, are in sales. "Sales like ours don't just happen," he snaps. "We make them happen! And I sell the sizzle!" How he does this could serve neatly as a crash course in the fine points, and pressure points, of selling records. Two basics from the Coury primer: "Nobody gets rich on singles: singles advertise an album. Most important: get your records on the radio...
...albums from the small roster of 13 RSO acts, and a record package of Evita, a pop-top opera about Eva Peron that is S.R.O. in London. Al Coury has to love it all. "I don't love vacuum cleaners and underwear. But I love music, and I can sell it." And it will be sold. What comes out of the RSO outfit may not seem a whole lot like real rock 'n' roll, but it sure sounds like money...
Yale Professor Robert Triffin warns, however, that many foreign holders of dollars, like holders of stocks that have been going down sharply, are ready to sell any time they can get a slightly better price. Says he: "They don't want to sell at the bottom, but each time the dollar moves up a little bit there are lots of people who are just waiting to unload"-and such selling will keep any dollar rebound from going very...