Word: sell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Business Board keep us all afloat. If you want to learn about big business and the octopus-like nature of Harvard Student Agencies scare you, as well it might, compete for the Business Board. After election, Business Board members earn a healthy commission on all ads they sell, including the ones sold during the competition. The Crimson will teach you how to sell ads and subscriptions, balance the books, and run off to Puerto Rico with anything you happen to pick up on the side...
...Business Board keep us all afloat. If you want to learn about big business and the octupus-like nature of Harvard Student Agencies scare you, as well it might, compete for the Business Board. After election, Business Board members earn a healthy commission on all ads they sell, including the ones sold during the competition. The Crimson will teach you how to sell ads and subscriptions, balance the books, and run off to Puerto Rico with anything you happen to pick up on the side...
...falling gold price puts South Africa in a particularly uncomfortable position. South African mines provide 77% of the non-Communist world's gold output, but as part of a 1968 pact, central banks agreed to stop buying the metal. That strategy was intended to force South Africa to sell all its gold on the free market, thus depressing the price. South Africa tried to break the embargo but found only Portugal and some Middle East sheikdoms willing to risk the wrath of the major monetary powers by purchasing newly mined gold...
...controls." Stainless-steel prices have climbed 35% since August. Rolls-Royce is reclaiming the metal from scrapped engines, and some auto manufacturers will probably cut down on nickel-bearing chromium trim. Lord Melchett, head of the British Steel Corp., has appealed to the Soviets, who also produce nickel, to sell more...
...South Africa's trade deficit is growing. The country must either sell more surplus gold to pay for imports or reduce them and invite domestic inflation. Some European bankers have been urging the U.S. to relax its opposition to South African gold sales for official reserves. Washington has rebuffed that idea, but last week Paul Volcker, Treasury Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs, suggested that if South African trade deficits grow to worrisome proportions, the country might instead sell some gold to the International Monetary Fund. After all, the IMF's main mission is to promote stability...