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Word: sell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Explain "overheating" to the construction or auto industries, which can't build homes or sell cars. I don't see retailers screaming about too many crowds in their stores. What is overheated are interest rates, and the Feds, the biggest borrowers in the country, are the most affected. I am going to try the Fed's solution on my slightly overweight dachshund, overfeeding her to get her to stop eating. I only hope she doesn't get sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 12, 1979 | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...Crimson skaters, setting patriotic considerations aside, hope to surprise their vaunted competition, the expected sell-out crowd of more than 3000, and maybe even themselves. They're talking upset: but a well-played competitive loss would be enough to raise expectations that this year's version of Harvard hockey, the youngest ever, can improve on last year's 7-18-1 fiasco...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Icemen, Olympic Squad Face-Off | 11/10/1979 | See Source »

...LONG-AWAITED double album upon which Warner Brothers has been banking its recently sagging fortunes will probably enrich the corporate coffers, but it will never sell the 15 million copies Rumours sold back in 1976. Tusk has not received the fanfare accorded to Fleetwood Mac's two previous albums--maybe because it's not as good, maybe because Fleetwood Mac is by now a known quantity, maybe because they're rapidly becoming passe...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: Driftwood of the '70s | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

...demonstrators walked into the Leverett House Junior Common Room chanting "Don't Sell Out" and "No Tokens," as a Chase representative talked to a small number of minority students...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: La Organization Pickets Minority Recruiting Meeting | 11/8/1979 | See Source »

...reason the A's never contacted him is probably because they have no full-time scouts and their orgainization is the laughing stock of professional baseball. Finley has sold every player from the great championship teams of 1972, 1973, and 1974, and is trying hard to sell the whole team. In the meantime, he runs them like a pretzel stand. And pays commensurate salaries...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Mike Stenhouse Meets Charles O. Finley | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

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