Word: selling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LITTLE BOY, they will even sell you pleasure. Beware your senses, for they will market them and seduce you with their product, and you will find (once you've paid for it) that it is empty--empty and shallow and disingenuous enough to make America sick for a thousand years...
Women who are concerned with integrating feminist principles into their career plans often reject Business School as "a sell-out." As second-year MBA candidate Anne L. Houden puts it, "Large numbers of women going into management will change business's image. But right now, to get ahead at Harvard Business School you have to adopt business ethics--and those are male ethics...
...offering a daily giveaway of technical books. Doubleday has refurbished and expanded its main Fifth Avenue store and is relying more and more on cut-rate leftovers-so-called remainders. Barnes & Noble's huge New York stores have flourished by offering a mountainous selection of remainders, which sell at a fraction of the jacket price. Only venerable Scribner's successfully remains above the battle, carrying thousands of titles its competitors do not stock...
Richard Snyder, president of Simon & Schuster, agrees: "Anyone who decries the state of fiction is naive. It used to be that the maximum you could hope to sell in quality work was about 100,000 copies. That figure has doubled in recent years...
...major problem historians face in the non-academic world is that few have the skills needed to "sell themselves" to prospective employers, despite their research, writing and information skills. "The fact that they have a Ph.D. and have taught esoteric courses is worthless," from the businessman's point of view, Robert Pomeroy, deputy advisor of the Inter-American Development Bank, told the students...