Word: selling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When I got to New Haven, I knew I had to sell one of my two tickets. I hung outside the Yale Bowl, huddled in my army jacket, looking like a convict. At everyone who passed by I intoned, "Psst. Need a ticket...
...shirts, of course, are not the only Game items Students can also purchase "Yale sucks" buttons and traditional "Beat Yale" hats, according to Rodney J. Taylor '91, a student vendor who will sell clothing items, banners, and pins at football games...
CHINA HAD experienced virtually no inflation for decades, but in the first six months of this year prices rose 9 percent generally, while food prices soared 20 percent. Farmers, freed from communes by the reforms and allowed to sell their produce at market prices, are now selling record harvests and spending gains on new goods. The central government is running up a budget deficit to accomodate this consumption...
Corruption unfortunately is a problem, as people are using state subsidies to buy goods cheap and sell them for private gain. In the first half of this year, the state found 240,000 violations of price controls...
...need for U.S. manufacturers to improve their quality and efficiency and learn how to promote their products in foreign markets. A gradually declining dollar may be a painful necessity now, but the U.S. should never lose sight of the goal of any prosperous trading nation: to be able to sell abroad and still have a currency strong enough to buy a lot in return...