Word: selling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SASC also called on the University to sell its almost $17 million of bonds and other short-term notes in banks lending money to the South African government. The University last week sold some of its stock in such banks for "financial reason...
Mass production of the miracle chip has already made possible home computer systems that sell for less than $800?and prices will continue to fall. Many domestic devices that use electric power may be computerized. Eventually, the household computer will be as much a part of the home as the kitchen sink; it will program washing machines, burglar and fire alarms, sewing machines, a robot vacuum cleaner and a machine that will rinse and stack dirty dishes. When something goes wrong with an appliance, a question to the computer will elicit repair instructions ?in future generations, repairs will...
...trillion economy might as well use Ouija boards. In the airline industry, computers make it possible to reserve a seat on a jumbo jet, pay for it by credit card, and enable the plane itself to fly. In many industries, computers design the products the companies sell. Automakers, for example, use computers to view a prospective new car from any angle; then the computers analyze the market to see if the design will sell...
...down the same street in the morning and turn in a different driveway." As billion-dollar chip makers like Texas Instruments and Motorola, which are based elsewhere, throw more of their weight into the fray, the smaller companies of the valley may ultimately be forced either to merge or sell out to larger firms. That could endanger the vitality of the valley. Explains Sanders: "This industry has amoeba-like qualities. It doesn't combine very well. It splits." That characteristic is the essence of competition, and no industry has better shown its benefits than the denizens of Silicon Valley...
MacKay Shields Financial Corporation notified the University Thursday of its intention to sell $1.6 million worth of stocks, including the bank stock and some shares in General Motors, and to purchase stocks in smaller but faster-growing companies...