Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bargain, the hawkers disappeared into the throng before agents from the "Department for Struggle Against Swindle and Speculation" could lay on the heavy hand of the law. The trade, according to Krokodil, Russia's official humor magazine, which sees nothing funny in the situation: a brisk black market in privately and illegally made woolen jerseys, caps, scarves, mittens and T shirts...
...industry. Dr. Console noted, wears a cloak of "self-proclaimed virtue" for its costly research activities, stressing "that there are many failures for each successful drug." But, he charged, "the problem is that they market so many of their failures." Under present law, a new drug may be marketed, "if it cannot be shown that it probably will kill too many people." Reluctantly, Dr. Console concluded, he is convinced that sweeping reforms dictated by federal law are the only solution, because a company that tried to live up to higher ethical standards could not survive in today's competition...
...latest foreign models were reaching the U.S. at a time when the market was more competitive than ever. Only recently, since dealers at last began to receive enough U.S. compacts to meet the demand, have they begun to cut into the sale of imported cars. Foreign-car sales dropped only slightly, from some 53,000 in September to 52,000 in March, but they are getting a smaller share of the expanding U.S. market, slipped from 13.2% of all cars sold last September to 8.3% last month...
...America, President John Burns has a paper profit of $830,000 on his options for 20,000 shares of stock, while General Electric Co. Chairman Ralph Cordiner has a $1,262,260 paper profit on options exercised since 1957. But with this year's fall in the market, and the failure of many stocks to rise during the past few years, many another executive has raised the question of whether options are as golden as their glitter...
...industry itself, but it was not until 1950 that it began to be widely used. Then Congress for the first time specified that if 1) a stock option was at least two years old, 2) it was granted at no less than 95% of the stock's market price, and 3) the stocks so purchased were held for more than six months, the profits would be taxable at long-term capital-gains rates (maximum 25%) instead of higher ordinary-income rates...