Word: sell
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and the single most important power on the Hill in economic matters, Connally "is a very able man. I think it is a good appointment." That will help, for it is Mills whom Connally will have to sell on Nixon's forthcoming proposals to store federal revenues with the states...
...party headquarters, others were looting stores in gestures of need or greed. Men dashed to safety with looted overcoats hastily donned over their own. and women lugged bulging packages. Fleet-footed teen-agers took everything from fur coats to oranges and champagne. Some entrepreneurs stopped long enough to sell surplus loot at curbside. One boy's inventory of shirts, for only 40 zlotys (or $1) apiece, was a steal in itself...
...sure, Heath seemed arrogant−if not foolhardy−in two of his early policy decisions. He chose to sell arms to racist South Africa to demonstrate his rugged independence in foreign affairs. He picked the relatively underpaid nationalized workers to prove his toughness in the face of inflationary wage claims. Then, too, there was Heath's minibudget, whose combination of tax cuts and rollbacks in social services is now seen by some to benefit only the well-to-do or the very poor. More and more, Britons are beginning to wonder whether Heath's critics...
...hottest speculation among the Las Vegas oddsmakers centers on the company that Hughes said he would never sell but then had to give up−TWA. Since its shares are now worth one-seventh of their value when he sold out, he could buy them back for $80-$100 million. That could be raised by selling a few Las Vegas hotels and Air West, which he would have to give up anyway to comply with Civil Aeronautics Board regulations. After that, he could again be boss of his own major airline...
DESPITE noise, television, Marshall McLuhan, and the much publicized decline in public school reading skills, quality children's books sell and sell. Such literary prosperity owes a good deal to the fact that more than 75% of juvenile sales are made to libraries that buy carefully, and often have federal funds to help them do it. Yet much of the allure of the children's book trade is due to the continuing output of a handful of illustrious, variously gifted and apparently inexhaustible authors and illustrators...