Word: selling
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...myths and helped to mold public opinion on women's issues with a sharp, witty and often bristling style. Despite its influence, however, the monthly (circ. 480,000) has rarely turned a profit. Turning to the Aussies for help, Co-Founders Gloria Steinem and Patricia Carbine announced they will sell the publication to the John Fairfax company, a major Australian communications conglomerate, for an undisclosed price believed to be as much as $15 million...
...grim new provisions are far different from the liberalizing reforms begun by Kadar in 1968. Those initiatives had gradually introduced small-scale free enterprise, allowed farmers to sell crops at market prices and permitted families to boost income with after-hours work. Last week's changes will produce a decline of as much as 15% in real income for ordinary Hungarians next year. In addition, the closing of inefficient enterprises under a new bankruptcy law could in the direst scenarios put as many as 500,000 people out of work...
Councilor Saundra Graham provided a counterpart to Vellucci's accomplished ravings last Monday, when the ostensible topic of discussion was a firehouse in Kendall Square that the city recently sold to MIT, against the wishes of some Councilors who had wanted to sell it to a taxable business...
...Lumieres, whose family owned a photographyfactory in Lyons, modified an earlier invention ofThomas Edison, the kinetograph, inventing a muchmore portable camera than the American inventor's.Although Edison produced motion pictures with hisunwieldy machine, he did not show them to thepublic because "he did not want to sell the goosethat lays the golden eggs," Petric said...
...power that local Communist chiefs have over regional banks. According to Yugoslav press accounts, Abdic pressured the local branch of Privredna Banka, the Bosnian central bank, into providing guarantees for a steady flow of unsecured promissory notes issued by Agrokomerc. The guarantees made it possible for Agrokomerc to sell the notes for cash to other banks. Abdic plowed the proceeds into his ambitious development plans for the company and lavish community projects for Velika Kladusa, including an Olympic-size swimming pool...