Word: selling
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...pass at the White House gates for each visit until he received a final security clearance. The second was a pleasure: a welcoming chat with Jimmy Carter. Since his arrival, Barrett has filed reports on a whirlwind of major stories that include the vote on whether or not to sell warplanes to Israel, and our in-depth study: "Jimmy Carter, the Leadership Question." This week his reporting provides the backbone of our Nation story about the President's edgy relations with Congress...
...Because of his stance against Big Business, Kucinich refuses to let the city sell the municipal power company-known as Muny Light-as planned by the previous administration. The struggling utility owes $17.5 million to Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co., a private firm, and is under court order to pay $14.9 million by the end of the year...
...singles and thus buy two-or more-of many things. "They are two-identity couples who buy for 'me' rather than 'we,' " says Larry Light, an executive vice president of BBDO, the advertising agency. "They don't buy as a family. We have to sell to them as individuals. Everybody has his or her own bar of soap and bottle of shampoo." Rena Bartos, a senior vice president at J. Walter Thompson, suggests that career couples are a prime target for a host of products, but explains, "We are still in the discovery stage...
Excited by the oil prospects that he saw in China, he foresees a three-way trade between capitalists and Communists. In Abboud's view, the U.S. will sell oil equipment to Peking. Then the Chinese will ship oil to Japan. Completing the deal, the Japanese will continue to send their cars, cameras and appliances to the U.S. Result: the U.S. will pay for its Japanese imports by selling drilling gear to China-and there will be oil for the lamps of Japan...
...charges come to trial, Wilmot's days as a highflyer in international aviation seem over. Last month Grumman sold its Gulfstream-manufacturing subsidiary to American Jet Industries, of Van Nuys, Calif. Its president, Allen Paulson, says flatly that Page will not be asked to help sell any more Gulfstreams...