Word: sell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wiped out by foreign competition: the share of the U.S. consumer electronics market held by American companies has plunged from almost 100% in 1970 to less than 5% today. When the Japanese started coming up with innovative products like VCRs and hand-held video cameras, U.S. firms decided to sell Tokyo's models rather than try to make their own. In short, U.S. industry no longer has the capacity to produce the quantity, quality or variety of goods that the public demands...
...Syndicated programming -- shows distributed directly to stations rather than through the networks -- has spurted in popularity, both on independent stations and network affiliates. Many of the latter are shoving aside network fare for syndicated shows (on which they can sell more advertising time). The ABC and CBS stations in New York City, for example, have shifted their networks' evening newscasts from 7 p.m. to the less watched 6:30 time period to make room for syndicated game shows...
...home-video partnership with Columbia Pictures. Only Tisch at CBS has held back from such diversification. Since taking over the network in 1986, he has sold off CBS's record and publishing divisions, leaving the company with a hoard of cash and inviting rumors that he plans to sell the network. Tisch denies it; he has instead gone shopping for more local stations. (Despite the troubled times, the network-owned stations have continued to show healthy profits...
...Carnegie Hall ticket office reported that it has sold 176 of the 254 tickets it was given to sell. All remaining seats in the 2804-seat concert hall have been sold by the Interfaith Hunger Appeal, according to Jan C. Larsen '89, general manager of the Krokodiloes. Ticket prices range from $12.50 to $100, and all proceeds will go to the charity...
...Sorry, sir, I'm not allowed to sell this...