Word: selling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...already served an unprecedented twelve years as Ohio's Governor, has gained considerable favor with voters by driving his own car to work, jawboning his way through all of Ohio's 88 counties and living in his own home (he says he would like to sell the Governor's mansion...
Despite all these problems, the new town concept is not dead. Several privately financed new communities-notably Columbia, Md., Reston, Va., and Irvine, Calif.-are profitable and growing. Even HUD does not label its program a total failure. The agency will try to sell off or transfer financing of seven of the 13 federally backed towns and dissolve the corporation that oversees the project, but it will continue to spend money on the six other communities that HUD planners think might survive. Besides, a 1976 National Science Foundation study of 17 new towns, HUD-backed and otherwise, shows that most...
They buy us off with fancy words and sell us out to cotten...
...designed what we thought would sell. Today the primary design objective is to suit...
...only full-size cars not going on a diet for 1979. It will be the last year, though, for Ford's yachts; the company is pushing them as collector's items at collector's prices. The Mark V lists at $13,067 and is expected to sell well. That presents a problem for Ford. To meet the 19-m.p.g. average this year, the company must offset the thirst of its big models with increased production of little cars. But sales of its mainstay in that field, the Pinto, dropped after the disclosure in July that Pintos...