Word: selling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Detroit's automakers, success is measured by how many cars they sell in a year. The industry takes its pulse regularly, in ten-day intervals, by reporting deliveries of new vehicles by manufacturer and name plate. Those figures can be cause for smiles or scowls, but right now they seem to be causing neither to any great extent. True, new-car sales were down during the Jan. 1-10 period, v. the same period a year ago-the sixth consecutive decline. But neither Detroit's automen nor Wall Street analysts seem particularly worried. As Dick Barrett, a Cadillac...
...Rings and Woody Allen's first film since Annie Hall. Beckett insists that U.A. will continue to prosper, pointing out that it still has "one of the best distribution systems in the world." Krim and Benjamin, who resigned from Transamerica's board last week and will not sell their Transamerica stock, may see an advantage there. "They are now in a position to go into the production end of the business," notes Beckett. That prospect is by no means definite, and the U.A. refugees are still considering several options. It would, however, afford the brilliant team a method...
Clients would pay Lloyd, Carr large sums to purchase rights either to buy or sell a "commodity futures contract" maturing at some given date in the future. Trading in U.S. commodity futures options has been banned in America since 1936, but dealers can offer options based on the London market. Carr's firm did this and prospered; it grew to employ 1,000 salesmen, and got the blessings of the Boston Better Business Bureau as well as a Dun & Bradstreet "triple A" credit rating...
Indeed, nobody peddling romance in any form seems in grave risk of unhappiness these days. Even books on sex seem to sell best when "joy" is part of the title, and a gossamer tale of juvenile heartbloom and heartbreak called Happy Days is one of the strongest-running sitcoms on the tube. Weightless romance, to be sure, has always been a TV staple, but now the lovelorn soaps have gained such a galvanized following among old and young that television can spoof itself with an unsavory parody of the genre called Soap. Public TV found out not long ago that...
Last summer, after an eight year long legal battle, a federal appeals court decided that despite a 75 year time lapse, offending landowners would either have to sell their land or do without federal water. In August, Secretary of State Cecil Andrus promptly issued guidelines for the sale of excess lands. Thousands of people turned in their names to a lottery for the newly created farms. And as late as November, Andrus was pressing Congress not to postpone enforcement...