Word: selling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contractors; at his retirement party, McDonnell Douglas presented him with a "cost cutter of the decade" award. But afterward, Parkin decided to go through the "revolving door" between the Pentagon and those who do business with it. He set up a consulting firm in nearby Alexandria, Va., to sell his expertise to military contractors...
Icahn's next move? "I haven't made up my mind yet," he insists. Icahn may have trouble raising the money to boost his $12.5 billion offer. He could hold his 14.8% stake and collect more than $100 million a year in dividends. Or he could sell and earn a profit of more than $500 million...
...trade balance is involved in the complex equation that deals with the drying of America. After dismal years of crop surpluses, falling prices and sagging overseas markets, the federal program to sell foodstocks abroad and take millions of acres out of production was at last paying off. Wheat surpluses had dwindled by 35% in the past two years, and exports were up 75%. So far, Clayton Yeutter, the U.S. trade representative, is resisting the cries to stop selling grain overseas and preserve it for American markets. But if grain sales abroad must be halted, the frustrated overseas customers...
...genres -- notably exercise tapes, children's cassettes and rock-concert videos -- have established a niche in the market. But the rest are fighting for a relatively tiny number of viewers. Usually produced on a shoestring, these made-for-home-video cassettes are doing well if they sell 20,000 or 30,000 copies (at prices ranging from $10 to $40). Says Bob Alexander, whose consulting firm Alexander & Associates tracks the home-video industry: "The dollars involved are a drop in the bucket in terms of the marketplace...
...farmers could freely sell or lease their water rights, profit motives would provide a powerful incentive for conservation. In Arizona, where such "water ranching" is widespread, farmers are drawing top dollar and, in the words of former Governor Bruce Babbitt, "retiring to beachfront condos in La Jolla ((Calif.)) to raise martinis instead of alfalfa." If water rights were widely traded, proponents say, cities and factories could assure their needs for posterity. Agriculture would still receive four-fifths of the West's water and would thrive, despite the increased costs...