Word: selling
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...always been particularly zealous in enforcing this proviso, so Murdoch presumably expected the Government to continue to bend the rules in his favor. But the liberal Kennedy (often referred to in Murdoch's Boston Herald as "the Fat Boy") sneaked a clause requiring Murdoch to sell either station or paper into a long congressional appropriations bill. President Reagan seems to have skipped reading the clause when signing the bill into law. In Boston Murdoch chose to sell the station and keep the paper, where he can continue to taunt Teddy. But in New York City he needs the station...
There were bigger stars off the field than on it. Former M*A*S*H stars Harry Morgan, Jamie Farr, and Wayne Rogers took the field for the IBM team, tossing around football lingo to sell computers. The Smothers Brothers joked for Magnavox, and Eric Clapton sang the praises of Michelob...
Curiously, the capital has recently shown signs of economic growth while under a virtual siege. Relaxation of rigid socialist controls has let new businesses emerge. Previously shuttered stores have reopened with fresh supplies of furniture, clothing and shoes. People can once again buy and sell prawns on the open market. The arrival of a shipload of Soviet cement late last year set off a modest building boom. "There has been no change in our overall aims," asserts Trade Minister Manuel Aranda da Silva. "But you can say that Frelimo has grown up and is now more mature." That growth will...
...Rumanian high-wire circus acts. Although the East bloc governments refuse to disclose the revenues they reap from the talent trade, Western economists estimate that contracts for 1986 alone may have amounted to $100 million. Says a Hungarian trade official: "People are one of the few commodities we can sell easily in the West...
Though Dole talks sense about fiscal responsibility, he refrains from laying out his deficit arithmetic and, at times, seems positively unenthused about his own one-year budget freeze. "It isn't the best policy," he said last week. "But it is easily understood and can sell politically." But that is still a profile in courage compared to Bush, whose only tangible proposal is to slash the capital-gains taxes to 15%. This leftover supply-side nostrum, also endorsed by Kemp, would destroy the tax-reform principle that earned and unearned income should be treated alike...