Word: sell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year AMC will sell some 150,000 of them to U.S. buyers, plus 25,000 abroad, giving its Jeep division 31% of the domestic sports-utility market-a term covering relatively small four-wheel-drive vehicles designed for off-road use. Running second is Chevy's Blazer with nearly 24% of the market, followed by Ford's newly revamped Bronco with 21%. Next year U.S. automen expect to produce 1 million four-wheel-drive vehicles. The field has become so attractive that even Mercedes plans to enter with its own four-wheeler by next summer...
...take more of a drubbing because even a negative ruling from the Casino Control Commission, which plans to begin hearings next month on granting Resorts a permanent license, could put several hundred million dollars in the company treasury. If Resorts lost its license, a state-appointed "conservator" would sell the casino and turn over the money to Resorts. The sale price would probably be at least twice as much as the company's $40 million investment in the gambling palace...
...officially endorses the monetary union as an important step toward the integration of Europe. In the short run the plan should help the dollar. Reason: European governments will usually not sell dollars in attempts to lift their own currencies and that will relieve downward pressure on the greenback. Instead, these countries will sell other European currencies...
...longer term, however, members of a united Europe might increase trade more with themselves than with the U.S., and a strong, viable ecu ultimately might rival the dollar as a real reserve currency. If that ever happens, Arab and other foreign governments might be tempted to sell dollars in order to invest in that odd new creature that has six parents...
...first time below .300 in ten seasons, the Reds tried to cut the salary of the home-town hero by 20%. It was the first salvo in a bitter fight that ended last week with Rose pulling down a Phillies cap over his pageboy. Rose also knows he can sell a lot of tickets for the Phils to cover his salary. Says baseball's leading entrepreneur: "I feel like I'm the No. 1 player, and I just want to get paid like...