Word: selling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee sponsored by the K-School's Energy and Environmental Policy Center (EEPC) is studying ways in which investors can hedge their bets by trading in contracts to sell oil at specified prices on future dates...
Several members of the pro-rent control Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) noted that the building contained ten rent-controlled units before the fire. They said KMR had gutted and rebuilt the inside of the structure to create condominiums that would sell for many times the value of the old apartments--and only then had applied for permission to remove the building from rent control...
...corporation member comments: "Divestment? What do they mean by that?" Another corporation member comments: "Divestment, mmmm, that means we should sell stock in companies that do business in South Africa, doesn...
...simply ruling that such a sale would be against the public interest. BP executives are nonetheless distressed at the size of Kuwait's stake in the company: not only could the Kuwaitis easily change their minds about seeking a role in management but they could also sell their stock to any corporate raider interested...
...second wave had a rocky start. Too often, enthusiastic young computer nerds babbling in technospeak would sell flashy systems to computer-dazzled counterparts in the research divisions of Fortune 500 companies. In turn, the corporate techies built glitzy prototypes that ran on exotic hardware. By the mid-1980s it became clear that both groups had missed the point: big companies did not want sexy technology for its own sake; they wanted solutions to business problems. Consequently, a number of once gung-ho companies began to sour on artificial-intelligence technology as expensive and impractical...