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Word: sell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still doing business in South Africa, had staunchly refused to join the more than 170 American companies, including Exxon and General Motors, that have closed their operations in that country because of its racial policies. But last week Mobil announced that it is also pulling out. The firm will sell its $400 million petroleum refining and marketing operations to General Mining Union Corp., a South African firm, for $155 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIVESTITURE: A Taxing Decision | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

Arthur Gross calls himself a "nationally renowned neo-Pop artist." What he does, in plain English, is sell trash. Not just any trash, to be sure. Gross, 23, rifles through the garbage cans of Beverly Hills, ferreting out such choice items as receipts from Cartier or cocktail napkins from the Beverly Hills Hotel's Polo Lounge. He then packages the debris in a clear plastic bag, slaps on a pink and green Beverly Hills Trash label and charges $5 for each bag-cum-artwork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOVELTIES: For Sale: High-Class Trash | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...these charts like a sorcerer, working most nights till dawn. As a technical analyst, he does not care about good companies or bad. When a reader advocates Apple Computer, he replies, "You're right, it's a great company. You're right, it has good earnings. You know what? Sell it." For Weinstein, price patterns tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Las Vegas, Nevada Stock Tips and Slot Machines | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

According to Coop Book Director Daniel J. Delellis, the store expected to sell about 300 copies yesterday. When Walker finished, about that many people, most of them women, had waited in line for her signature holding the book in their hands...

Author: By Amy B. Shuffelton, | Title: Pulitzer-Winning Author Alice Walker Visits Coop | 5/5/1989 | See Source »

...Undergraduate Council chair Kenneth E. Lee '89 on what it will take to sell-out tomorrow night's Suzanne Vega concert and avoid heavy financial losses for the council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 5/5/1989 | See Source »

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