Word: sells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Larry Foreman refuses to sell out. he sings about how we're going to get together and rock the cradle...
...Carol and Ted and Alice. But consider: Ted and Alice are the most convincing married couple to appear in a Hollywood film for a long time. As played by Gould and Cannon, they are funny and sometimes touching and always appealing. Even if Hollywood still has to sell-out when it presents revolutionaries, it has at least learned to give us human straight guys...
...Lemuel R. Boulware, then a G.E. vice president and now retired. Boulwarism is based on two tenets. First, the company should make a "firm, fair" offer at the start of negotiations and refuse to budge from it. Second, the company should engage in vigorous "employee marketing" to sell the merits of its offer...
...prime mover of the diversification is Chairman Howard L. Clark, 53, a lawyer and accountant who joined Amexco in 1945 as assistant to the president and became chief executive in 1960. The company then was taking in revenue of $75 million annually, primarily from arranging tours and selling traveler's checks, but these activities contributed little directly to net income. Most of that came from investing the "float" of money paid for traveler's checks that had not been cashed. Clark saw that the traveler's-check business, in effect, was a license to print money. Investing...
...hesitated to shed businesses as well-including some that made money but not as much as he would have liked. Amexco acquired the Uni-card credit business in 1965 and expanded it, but sold it last January-for a $16.6 million profit. Early last month, it agreed to sell its freight operations to Pacific Intermountain Express...