Word: sell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Connally advertisement was the symbol of another element in the 1980 race: its length. The spot was one of the earliest national television advertisements ever purchased for a presidential race. But network executives have had to refuse to sell larger chunks of time to Reagan and Carter, saying that they do not want to give candidates access to the nets until 1980. Last week the Carter-Mondale Committee filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission, charging the networks with denying them reasonable access to air time...
...best use its influence toward bringing about a cease-fire in the Western Sahara between Morocco and the Algerian-backed Polisario guerrillas, who want to establish an independent state in the area formerly ruled by Spain. Morocco's King Hassan II is pressing the U.S. to sell him the Bronco planes and Cobra helicopter gunships he feels he needs to continue the fight against the guerrillas. The U.S. State Department opposes the sale and cites a CIA assessment that Morocco cannot win the war against the Polisarios. The State Department also fears that the arms sale would merely provoke...
...Carter was determined to get 30 minutes in early December to announce for reelection. His campaign committee filed a complaint with the FCC. "For them to say that the political season hasn't started is absurd," said a Carter aide. "The reason they don't want to sell the time is because it'll cost them money...
...shortages of last spring that triggered Chrysler's ruinous 1979 sales slump (indeed, recently Ford and General Motors have also been losing money on their U.S. operations). Yet the fundamental problem has been poor management; Chrysler has consistently failed to come up with enough models that sell well, and its share of the U.S. auto market has slumped from 14% three years ago to 11% now. The firm's total indebtedness, including that of its financial affiliate, now stands at more than $5 billion, spread among some 250 different banks and other institutions, and lenders are wary...
Even in its hardest reality, politics has more and more entailed a practice of the theatrical arts. Candidates recite words set down by craftsmen who for purely technical reasons are not called scriptwriters; they sell themselves with minimovies called commercials; they thrive on pseudo events-of which the Big Announcement is but one-contrived by people who work like stage managers; once in office they are quite as concerned with images as Fellini, though hardly for artistic ends...