Word: selling
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...take exception to your closing comment: "Since trucks haul just about everything that Americans buy or sell...
...resistant to drought, and the distribution of pesticides in areas infested by plant pests has been delayed. Rice production is declining in the once prosperous Mekong Delta. Hanoi had announced that it was willing to trade consumer goods such as electric fans for rice, hoping to induce peasants to sell their crops to the government instead of on the black market. When the government failed to deliver the promised consumer goods, disappointed farmers began producing less. The Vietnamese party newspaper Nhan Dan has complained that many peasants leave paddyfields uncultivated or use rice to distill alcohol or feed pigs...
...When we say strategic misrepresentation, we're not talking about a person who, when trying to sell a used car, will set back the odometer," Raiffa wrote in this month's Harvard Business School Bulletin. "That sort of scurrilous behavior would not be condoned by me or by any of my students. We are talking about the grayer area where the seller of the car would be willing to sell at $500 but says he would not be willing to take a cent less than...
...domestic sources and a switch to alternative fuels. Today's crisis may mean that needed reforms will get fresh attentions and new support. "Congress now realizes the seriousness ot the situation," says Energy Secretary James Schlesinger. " It is necessary to take advantage of short-term emergencies to sell the need for unpopular measures...
Some forms of gold investment may turn out to be sucker's bets. Anyone with just one Krugerrand can boast about his "gold holdings," but the coins typically sell for 6% to 10% above the going rates paid by dealers for bullion. Worse, some banks and jewelry shops that sell them will not buy them back except at a similar-size discount, and a number of retailers will not repurchase them...