Word: selling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mayor's re-election is unlikely. He beat back a recall try in August of last year by only 236 votes; in February he convinced two-thirds of Cleveland voters to raise their own income taxes and defeat a referendum to sell Muny Light; he finally won the approval of a hostile city council of his own plan to repay the banks. But in the primary October 2, Kucinich ran 11,228 votes behind Voinovich. Kucinich has heavy union support, but Voinovich is outspending him more than two to one. The deciding factor in the run-off may turn...
...only message is hardly original or airtight; it's nothing new to tell politicans they should worry about doing their jobs right and not about their public images, and it's specious to say that only newspapers are interested in sex scandals when the newspapers that cover then sell hundreds of thousands more copies than the newspapers that...
...wide-ranging analysis of national defense needs. The Jones touch was also evident in a successful campaign against the Office of Management and Budget; OMB wanted to limit military pay raises to 5%, but Jones got 7%. He has been equally persuasive at the White House, where he helped sell Jimmy Carter on the MX mobile ICBM...
...panic selling had actually started the previous Thursday, Oct. 24. That was when the Dow Jones industrial average, having already slipped in seven weeks from its record high of 381, dropped by six points on spectacularly high volume to 299. The plunge continued on Friday, on a half-day session Saturday, and on Monday as well. But Tuesday is nonetheless remembered as the truly black day: as frightened shareholders across the country rushed to sell, trading volume soared to an unprecedented 16,410,030 shares,- the Dow tumbled another 31 points, to 230, and it was clear to almost everyone...
...increasingly, combined with close-fitting T shirts, dressy silk blouses, and short boots. Response to the new look so far has been liveliest in New York City and Miami, where buyers for department stores are having trouble keeping up with demand. French versions of the baggy jeans, dubbed "Texas," sell for more than $75 at such trendy New York stores and boutiques as Bendel and Henry Lehr; U.S.-made baggies are cheaper. Bloomingdale's reports that it has sold almost 5,000 of the new jeans at $38 to $58 a pair since August. Says Buyer Susan Volk...