Word: selling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...permanent wayfarer who sold home-made turquoise jewelry to other roadies to survive. He was on the way to a rock concert he'd heard abut in Oregon, and since he had lost all his money the night before in Carson City, he was in a hurry to sell as many necklaces and roach clips as he could to the concertgoers. I hadn't heard of any concert, but he'll, he'd been hitching 20 years against my two weeks, and we made it as far as Mount Shasta, California before a rainstorm and the approaching cold night forced...
...Arab world, one of the two Camp David agreements, the "framework" setting forth a timetable for a peace settlement between Israel and Egypt, was proceeding on schedule. The loose end, recognized but unresolved at Camp David because Begin said he did not want to be the one to "sell out the settlers," is the question of whether the Israelis will dismantle their 17 settlements in the Sinai, as demanded by Egypt. Begin cautiously left that for the Knesset to decide...
Under the threat of extinction, professors are now giving their lectures more zeal, as well as sell, than they did in the past. Many a full professor who left his undergraduates mostly to wan and preoccupied teaching assistants is back in the classroom going all out. If the crunch on colleges could at last result in something like "teach or perish," instead of publish or perish, the uses of economic adversity might prove sweet indeed for American education...
...covering the magazine's operating expenses. Furthermore, the burden of soaring second-class postal rates will be lightened by greater emphasis on newsstand sales. At the weekly LIFE'S termination, some 96% of its circulation went to mail subscribers and only 4% to newsstands. LIFE now in tends to sell only about 30% of its copies through the mail and about 70% on newsstands...
...father." Next he picks up a small statue and, holding it like a microphone, intones, "Allo, allo, zis eez Jacques Cousteau for Union Oil." He then breaks into the Beverly Hills Blues: "Woke up the other day/ Ran out of Perrier/ I've really paid my dues/ Had to sell my Gucci shoes." The Robin Williams show has begun. Except that the show takes place off-camera between takes on Mark & Mindy ?the sleeper comedy sitcom of the young TV season...