Word: unload
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disposal of such a huge property glut presents Government bureaucrats with a very delicate situation. If they try to unload the property too fast, they could sharply depress the real estate market and the value of the assets they still hold. The falling prices could put even more S & Ls in jeopardy by undermining their outstanding real estate loans. Already the impending sales have frightened real estate investors and kept a damper on prices, especially in the hard-hit Southwest. The federal holdings, says Dallas S & L adviser Richard Kneipper, are like a "tidal wave about to crush...
...smile for Kelly's semiannual follies. He dismisses another candidate offhandedly: "Tell her she can do my show if she stops doing drugs." Meanwhile, the designer darts in and out of the sewing room, nipping a tuck here and pinning a fold there on a muslin pattern. Later, salesmen unload briefcases of fabrics. Kelly picks up a purple knit. He smells it. "Combien?" he inquires. The answer: 125 francs ($20) per meter. "Why so much?" Kelly challenges. The bargaining is serious: Kelly, whose dresses run from $395 to $2,200, builds his business on providing a less expensive alternative...
...short, 1-2-3 backers are not seeking to charitably introduce some tenants to the joys of homeownership, but, rather, to unload buildings which do not turn enough of a profit...
...motive is not, however, strictly sentimental. Toth had a stock of T-shirts printed that read--you guessed it--"The Giant Sloth: The Legend Continues." He predicts that once the movement catches fire, he will be able to hawk the shirts in dining halls and unload them on giant sloth fans at $7 a crack. Keep that in mind when you are tempted to discount John Kenneth Galbraith's thesis that producers create the demand for their products...
Grief and bewilderment etched the weary, unshaven faces of the airport volunteers, whose bloodshot eyes seemed to brim with tears. Workers formed a human chain in the pouring rain to unload the plane's cargo of pain-killers, penicillin, iodine swabs and bandages donated by American companies. They worked by flashlight well into the night. A young man took me aside and whispered, "Be sure to tell everyone in America and Europe how thankful...