Word: selling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your "Greenbacks Under the Gun" [Aug. 28] was almost a true account of our disastrous situation. Your list of things the U.S. "could do" is an exercise in futility. Buy up dollars aggressively with what? More I.O.U.s? More Treasury debt certificates? Freshly printed greenbacks? Sell our gold? What will that do but ruin the price of gold without even touching our foreign and domestic deficits? Sure, sell at the market and we could pay the foreign deficits for a couple of years, and then what? What pol would vote to raise interest rates far enough to put us into...
When not contesting, Mrs. Haley knits pillows to sell at the senior citizens center in Clearwater. She and Bill are also seashore bounty hunters. "We got a couple of old pocketbooks at the Goodwill, and we go out and walk along the beach with metal detectors," she explains. Their harvest has so far brought in coins, watches, fishing knives and a hubcap from a circa 1931 Essex. Says she: "People who say 'I can't find nothing to do' kill...
...gambling mania. Some regard it as a welcome sign that the small investor is at last returning to the market. Many more would agree with E.F. Hutton Vice President Anthony Correra, who warns that gambling stocks "have run up too far, too fast. We think traders should sell and take their profits while they can." That is what the smart money may have been doing. In June, Securities and Exchange Commission records show, Resorts officers sold 24,800 shares in their own company, which were then valued at $1.87 million...
...Motors, has been urging a strict code of conduct for U.S. companies in the land of apartheid and demanding that they actively help black workers overcome various bars to forming unions. Anti-apartheid protests stand to intensify on campuses this fall, and many universities and foundations have decided to sell their shares in corporations operating in South Africa. Concedes a ranking General Electric executive: "No responsible firm today could ignore the concerns of large blocks of shareholders in the churches and universities...
...anybody but himself. His own recordings went nowhere, perhaps because they were not truly his own. Producers decreed that he should be backed by slick studio musicians and often swathed in saccharine strings. What came out was the Nashville sound, not the Willie Nelson sound. "I was trying to sell a new style of singer," Willie recalls. "They didn't have a category...