Word: sold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Commander Leonard Zunin launched "Operation Second Life" with the idea that the best help for widows can come from other widows. In a sense, he is simply employing the form of help more "primitive" societies take for granted: letting the bereaved relieve their grief by expressing it openly. Zunin sold the idea to his military superiors in the fearful jargon of his profession: "In a situation where commonality of loss of the husband is present, the group can be exceedingly supportive...
...cases in which FDA has taken decisive action, it has run into strong opposition. The agency is trying to remove from the market 1) a combination of two antibiotics, tetracycline and novobiocin, marketed by the Upjohn Co. as Panalba, and 2) a combination of tetracycline with an antifungal agent, sold as Mysteclin-F (E. R. Squibb & Sons), Declostatin (Lederle Laboratories) and Tetrastatin (J. B. Roerig division of Chas. Pfizer & Co. Inc.). Upjohn has already taken its case to the courts, and the other firms may do so as well. Both drugs are widely prescribed items, ringing up tens of millions...
...newly mined South African gold. They wanted Zurich to challenge London's position as the leading gold market, and they also figured to sell the gold at a lucrative markup. By carefully controlling their marketing practices, they could keep the free-market price from becoming depressed. They sold the gold to industrial users, private hoarders and speculators-but only when demand was strong enough to make the deal pay off. Indeed, when the free-market price weakened slightly last month, the three Swiss banks bought more gold in London to help prop...
...designed along the lines of the shack he lived in as a child in Texas. Brady Keys, a former Pittsburgh Steelers defensive back, is president of "All-Pro Chicken," which he set up in 1967 with the help of the First National City Bank. Keys has sold 150 franchises-many to other black athletes -in eleven cities...
...Last winter, he launched a 147-ft. motor yacht and traded up from a Lockheed Jetstar to a white-and-green DC-9 jet in which he installed a lavish office. It was the first such plane in the world acquired for personal use; a second was sold later to Playboy Hugh Hefner...