Word: selling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worry if you don't have tickets. You can get bleacher seats for $5 from the ticket office, or if the Yankees are in town, there's always a seedy looking scalper nearby eager to sell you the "best seat in the house...
Soon enough he was the circus. When a presidential blind trust effectively cut him out of the Carter warehouse business that he had run for years, Billy began drinking heavily. He ran for mayor of Plains, and was defeated. To pay back taxes, he had to sell his property, even the filling station -- "the only thing that was really mine." He became a registered agent for Muammar Gaddafi's regime in Libya, with a $220,000 Libyan "loan...
...only about half of all commodity prices. The rest, including those of such agricultural staples as rice and other grains, have generally remained fixed under the old rules. This two-tier approach has led to some economic absurdities: farmers, for example, must buy fertilizer at high, decontrolled prices but sell their grain crop at low controlled ones, sometimes at a loss...
...based company (1987 revenues: $17.7 billion) two weeks ago, Kroger's board approved a sweeping $4.6 billion restructuring plan. Spurning the $4.4 billion Haft bid, as well as a follow-up $4.6 billion offer from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, a New York City investment firm, Kroger's management proposed to sell off dozens of properties, slash costs and offer its stockholders cash and bonds worth up to $60 a share. Says Kroger CEO Lyle Everingham: "The company is not for sale...
...Texas. "These guys," says a county chairman, "have to be a whole lot tougher in rebutting this bull." But Bentsen, for the moment, remains as genteel as a second-generation landowner and as formal as a senatorial gray eminence. He knows that when you have a tough sell, the best thing is to keep calm and make it look easy...