Word: sold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these ballplayers are not too happy about being with the Mets. I told 'em maybe they shouldn't be so proud, and that they should consider that they are fortunate in being with the Mets because there must be some flaw in them or they wouldn't have been sold to us by those other clubs...
Cheaper at Auction. The interest declines were small but widespread. Rates on bankers' acceptances-corporate promissory notes issued to finance goods in transit or storage with payment guaranteed by a bank-fell by ¼% to 8%. In the bond market, Treasury bills sold at an average 6.86%, down from a peak of 7.22% last month. Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone sold $75 million in debentures at 7¾% compared with a 7.9% rate on the last Bell System bond offering in July...
...attack is long overdue. Economist Smith says industrial plants recently finished have cost up to 25% more than similar plants built a year ago-a stunning rate of inflation even for the construction industry. These increases eventually are reflected in the prices of goods sold by the new factories. They hurt consumers more directly by helping to force increases in new house prices, which are rising at a rate of close to 10% this year. The reason is that high wage and benefit scales established on industrial construction jobs are often applied subsequently to residential housing...
...find a new outlet for their money. "People are hungering for something to get action out of," says Robert T. Allen, vice president of Shearson, Hammill & Co., the big Manhattan brokerage house. Especially hungry are the managers of "performance" mutual funds and hedge funds, both of which have sold themselves to investors on the promise that they could select stocks that would surge ahead no matter what the rest of the market did. The stocks that most of them selected-computer, conglomerate, oceanography and nursing-home issues-have fallen hard in this summer's bear market...
Lowi's is only the latest assault on liberalism from the left side of the political spectrum. The favorite thesis, suggested by Christopher Lasch (The Agony of the American Left) and Noam Chomsky (American Power and the New Mandarins), is that liberals sold out their principles once they came to power. Lowi's theory is quite different. He argues that liberalism, which in theory has dominated Government policy for decades, has not really been put into practice...