Word: stockely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Guns, guns, guns! New shipment just arrived from Germany. Stock up now. Protect your loved ones...
Enforcing the resolution might compel the South Africans to relax information laws and give the shareholders a clearer idea of what dealings exist, Smith said, adding that under present circumstances the stock was invested in a "blind trust...
Until 1975, G.E.--a corporation in which Harvard owns $15 million of stock--employed only 10 blacks in salaried positions out of a total of nearly 1600 G.E. workers in South Africa. The multinational corporation has made no real attempt to force the issue of apartheid regulation with the white minority government, as some other U.S. corporations have done. Essentially, G.E. plants maintain fully-segregated facilities and Africans may not supervise white employees in any area of the company...
...example of the close-to-the-customer approach that has maintained McDonald's phenomenal growth (TIME cover, Sept. 17, 1973) against what would seem to be heavy odds. Investors have sold the stock down from a high of $77 in 1972 to about $42 last week. One reason: the fear that energy shortages and higher gasoline taxes will eventually restrict driving and thus the patronage of McDonald's restaurants. Competition in the fast-food business has rocketed: not only have hamburger chains proliferated, but Americans can now pop around the corner to get takeaway tacos, fish cakes, spaghetti...
Rare-book dealers and collectors had mixed feelings about the record costs. "The Snopeses are in the market," grumbled one bibliopole, as agents for wealthy clients pushed prices to new highs. But as the bidding raised the value of items already in his stock, the same dealer was heard whispering to himself...