Word: selling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...founders of what became The Farmers Alliance (the forerunner of the Populist movement of the '90's), were struggling to pry loose the ruinous grip of the crop lien system under which a banker could tell an indebted farmer whom to buy from, what to grow, and whom to sell to. As one of the men who had been at the Lampassas meeting said later, the farmers had come to forestall "the day... when all the balance of labor's products become concentrated into the hands of a few, there to constitute a power that would enslave posterity." The Alliancemen...
...trust developed in September when Byrd advised Carter to let go of Bert Lance. Says Byrd: "Carter listened carefully, seemed impressed with what I said, and even asked me to come back later." Now Byrd is telling the President that his approach to Congress last year was too soft-sell. With party discipline weak, advises Byrd, Carter must create his own congressional majorities by force of argument, which he has so far not done. Quips Democratic Representative John Brademas of Indiana: "If Carter does that, he will truly have been born again politically...
...sell Canada 18 CP-140 surveillance aircraft, valued at $700 million, Lockheed had to agree to spend $900 million in that country. Such deals ultimately result in a smaller piece of the action for U.S. planemakers; by the same token, there is less economic pain if orders are canceled...
...compassion with a dash of greed. And why not? The Roman Catholic Pallottine Fathers, an international order founded in Italy in 1835, support 2,200 priests and brothers in 26 countries. Its U.S. fund raisers were tired of pleading for nickels and dimes, year after year. By applying hard-sell money-raising means to the world of charity they could swiftly rake in $30 million in capital, invest it, and then they and their missions might live beneficently and happily ever after...
...Office treats the Search List as a starting point for recruitment, sending letters to all students on its Search List. Oscar Rodriguez '80, one of the student recruiters, says the function of the letters is both "to tell the Search students what Harvard is about, and to try to sell Harvard to them as best...