Word: selling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...immense. Nicaragua is a wreck, inhabited by despair. A report secretly commissioned by the Sandinistas confirms the country's plight: with an annual per capita income of $300, Nicaragua is possibly the poorest country in the western hemisphere. Unemployment may reach 30% this year. Those who have skills to sell and some place to go get out: more than 10,000 have joined the contra counterrevolution, and at least 250,000 out of the population of 3.5 million have fled, many...
Mazda, which is building the Miata in a plant in Hiroshima, plans to sell about 20,000 of the cars in the U.S. during 1989 and 40,000 next year. That is only a small portion of the 10 million-car U.S. market, but the Miata represents another little dent in Detroit's battered pride...
Faced with the present uncertainty, what should a person do? Home buyers might want to consider whether electrical cables are near a desired property, but experts do not advise people to sell their homes to escape being close to power lines. Instead, some easy, inexpensive changes make sense. Among them: use electric blankets only to warm beds before retiring, place the electric alarm clock across the room instead of by the bed and sit at least ten feet away from the television set. Above all, avoid excessive worrying. Until the verdict is in, the watchword is prudence, not panic...
...colleagues and himself, but the Japanese company is challenging his motives. They suspect that Pickens may be involved with Watanabe in a scheme to elicit a greenmail payment in return for the 20% stake. Koito officials say twice last year Watanabe approached them with an offer to sell back his shares at a premium. They believe that after Koito rejected Watanabe's offer, he searched for a buyer...
Many critics are especially upset by hard-sell lottery advertising. An Illinois ad pictured a man scoffing at people investing in savings bonds, and insisting that winning the lottery is the only way an ordinary person can become a millionaire. Valerie Lorenz at the National Center for Pathological Gambling in Baltimore laments, "We used to say, 'Work hard, study hard, and you'll get ahead.' Now we say, 'Just gamble...