Word: selling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Egyptian President is particularly concerned about U.S. arms sales in the Middle East. He feels that Israeli intransigence is a direct result of its huge military force, derived from U.S. aid. Sadat wants the U.S. to sell Egypt up to 120 F-5E fighter planes, priced at about $5 million each, to replace the deteriorating planes acquired from the Russians since 1955. But even more urgently, Sadat's advisers want the U.S. to delay indefinitely compliance with an Israeli request for the more sophisticated $10 million F-16 fighter. "To introduce this aircraft into the Middle East would create...
...Vida blue? The Oakland Athletics star pitcher had hoped to leave his losing team (last year's record: 63-98) and join the talent-heavy Cincinnati Reds. But Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, who nixed the plans of Oakland A's Owner Charley Finley to sell Blue to the Yankees for $1.5 million in 1976, once again ruled no. Kuhn has set an informal ceiling on player sales-$400,000-and Finley this time was asking $1.75 million for Blue. Besides, declared Kuhn, "conduct which unreasonably saps the game of competitive balance surely is not in the best interests...
...electrics and possibly some hybrids (which switch over to gasoline engines for high-speed, long-distance driving). The cars should cost from $3,000 to $7,000, of which the Government will pay perhaps $1,000. The selected firms?there are already 49 applicants ?will sell or lease the cars to the public at discount prices. Drivers will register their impressions with the dealers, who will service the cars and report to DOE. The cars will have to meet several specifications: 1) a maximum speed of 55 m.p.h.; 2) acceleration to 31 m.p.h. within twelve seconds...
...Star was to reach its full potential, he felt, it must be backed by resources beyond the reach of a single investor. So last week he reached agreement to sell the Star for $20 million to Time Inc., publisher of TIME, PEOPLE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, MONEY and FORTUNE magazines. The company, which also has extensive book, cable television and forest-products operations, last year had profits of about $90 million on revenues of $1.25 billion...
...government is just trying to sell the Indians out," Winona LaDuke Westigard '80, a member of the Logiabwa tribe, said yesterday, adding that the Indians should not have to pay for something that is already theirs...