Word: selling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first dramatic step was to sell the bishop's 17-room brick residence, which Topel did for $25,000. (As the legal "corporation sole" of the diocese, the bishop can dispose of diocesan assets as he sees fit.) He also sold his gem-studded crozier and pectoral cross. All profits were turned over to charity through a special ecumenical committee...
...Washington would do nothing much to stop the slide scrambled to buy back bucks. In chaotic trading on Wednesday, the dollar rose 5% against the Japanese yen, 7% against the West German mark and 7.5% against the Swiss franc. Gold, which speculators buy when the dollar is sick and sell when they think it may recover, fell a startling $23 an ounce by the end of the week...
...George Fielding stood idly by a stack of unsold copies of the WallStreet Journal. Sales of the Journal declined today. Fielding said. "We sold 600 copies of the Times today until we ran out at 2 p.m.," he said, adding, "On an average day before the strike, we would sell about 300 copies...
...whose name is at the top of the list. He then makes two copies of the letter, and on those crosses out the name of the person to whom he has sent the money. He adds his own name to the bottom of the list, and then attempts to sell the copies he has made for $50 each...
Petit said it took him about two weeks to sell his letters. "Outside of Harvard, people are more likely to buy the letter," he said. "There's just something about the people here that makes them unwilling to buy it," he added...