Word: selling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficult for you also to live next to a poor and developing country." There was worse to come. Declared LÓpez Portillo: "The most serious issue of our times is the fact that there are men who can buy men and that there are men who have to sell themselves. And this happens very frequently with our poor people who go to the United States...
...last night. Last night there occurred, before a raucous sell-out crowd at Lynah Rink in Ithaca, N.Y., The Blowout. Cornell scored three quick goals within two minutes just to show the Crimson who was boss and who would experience the ECAC play-offs vicariously, then added five more in the opening stanza on the way to a leisurely 11-3 rout...
...Angeles-based entertainment conglomerate, which is making discs for the Magnavox player. The company has been rummaging movie company libraries for popular films. While recent releases on the MCA discs cost $15.95, older classics like Destry Rides Again and TV movies (Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman) sell for $9.95; how-to features like a Julia Child cooking course or films of Ali's boxing bouts are priced at $5.95 and up. RCA, which is producing its own discs, expects to start with about 250 offerings at a top price...
Since last fall, new U.S. deals with China-to build hotels, open iron mines, sell planes, oil drilling equipment and even Coca-Cola-have been popping like firecrackers at a Chinese New Year celebration. U.S. exports to China leaped from $171.5 million in 1977 to $823.6 million last year, and forecasts of the 1985 volume range up to $6 billion...
China is avid to buy foreign technology, but how much it will be able to pay for is inscrutable. The still poor country has little to sell abroad, and it is most uncertain what sums it can borrow, from whom and on what terms. Finally, veteran China traders suspect that in many cases what now appear to be three sales will turn out to be only one, for which the Chinese have invited three companies, unknown to each other, to negotiate and submit what amount to competing bids-a strategy not unknown in the West...