Word: sell
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Savoy) "We give away more copies than we sell," moans a Savoy publicist. Too bad, because these nine double discs should be anything but the best-kept secret in Rock & Roll...
Smaller companies, many of them with less than $100 million in annual sales, are also making forays into foreign markets. Typical of the U.S.'s new generation of exporters is Keedon Enterprises, Inc. of Los Angeles, a privately owned manufacturer of hydraulic platforms, which sell for between $11,000 and $20,500 and are used as mobile scaffolds in the construction industry. The firm opened in 1973, but it did not export at all until 18 months ago. Now 50% of Keedon's output is sold abroad, and the company has distributors in 33 nations. Company Vice President...
...famous old Rolls ad was the loudest thing one could hear as the car purred along at 60 m.p.h. But if you have to ask about the gas mileage, you cannot afford to buy one; the Spirit gets between 10 and 14 m.p.g. The car is priced to sell in Britain for $119,000, and will undoubtedly cost several thousand dollars more when it is introduced in the U.S. next April...
...outbreak of fighting immediately drove up prices of oil purchased on the spot market; oil brokers predicted that prices for long-term supply contracts might soon follow. The spot market reacts quickly to international tensions because it is composed of prices set by traders who usually buy and sell small shipments of crude. Spot oil in Rotterdam rose from $31 to $33 per bbl. last week and very little of it was available. Said one trader: "Everyone believes that Brazil, France and Italy will have to go on the spot market to make up for oil missing from Iraq...
...Real expects it to be twice as large as Summa's hotel and casino business by 1985. The Summa real estate holdings are a potential jackpot. The company owns 29,000 acres in Nevada; only the Federal Government has more land in the state. Summa is about to sell 12,000 acres in Tucson and is sitting on an additional 1,200 acres in the affluent Playa del Rey section of Los Angeles...