Word: sell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ARBOR, Mich.--The Michigan State University (MSU) decision to sell holdings in corporations doing business with South Africa resulted in a profit of almost $1 million, Ray Krolikowski, chairman of the trustee's investment committee, said recently...
...Francisco, Victor Bergeron, owner of the 20-restaurant Trader Vic's chain, sent a cable to all members forbidding them to buy or sell either product. Then he personally smashed his last six bottles of Stolichnaya vodka. The five Fairmont hotels throughout the country also announced that they will not stock Russian vodka, or caviar from the Soviet Union or Iran. Though no figures are available, the boycott will have little effect. Most vodka consumed in the U.S. is domestically distilled; the liquor from the Soviet Union sells in limited quantity at high prices...
...Florida, which is the biggest entry point for illegal narcotics from South America, agents must take possession of all transport seized in drug busts. The officers may, in many cases, keep the vehicles for their own official use, or sell them to help pay their expenses. All together, sheriffs' departments have seized at least $6 million in property since 1976. U.S. customs officials alone last year claimed 81 airplanes, 191 boats and 211 land vehicles...
...words were recorded and made available as public service and propaganda by Troy Soos, 22, who heads a group of aggressive unbelievers affiliated with Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair. Like so many missionaries, Soos is not into soft sell or subtlety. He informs callers that the Bible is the "Christians' fictitious novel." But many of the people who accept his offer to reply, on a recording device, are equally blunt. Several have expressed regrets that atheists are no longer burned at the stake. One shouted: "Kill! Kill! Kill...
...checking with his broker, he finds that the six-month future price of corn is $2.75 per bu. The farmer calculates that $2.75 per bu. for his crop would be a fair price, so he guarantees that he will get it by "hedging," or agreeing in advance to sell a contract for 50,000 bu. at that price in the futures market. This protects him against a drop in grain prices...