Word: sell
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...hurdle posed by conflict of interest hindered the selection process in another way: since the Reaganauts anticipated that some of the people they approached would turn them down because they did not want to expose their financial affairs or sell off lucrative assets, the aides had to be prepared with alternative choices. Says one: "We were like a coach fielding a team, constantly making sure that there were a lot of quality players on the bench as backup...
...assemble a carburetor." Nor are robots a panacea for all the ills that industry is heir to. The most automated factory of its time was the Lordstown plant that GM designed to produce the unsuccessful Vega, evidence that productivity is not worth much if the product is hard to sell. As the robotmakers look ahead, though, they see a promised land. It is a land in which the factory computers guide the original design of a product and then translate all instructions for the robots that provide the muscle on the automated assembly line. Furthermore, increased production should keep driving...
...burden of supporting minority students must also be shared by white students. Just as it seems a tired battle-cry to call on the university to sell South Africa-related investments, it might sound redundant to some to call on white students to understand Black students' concerns. Yet in the aftermath of the Klitgaard report and the recent threats, never has a climate of understanding been more necessary. Perhaps White students who feel that minority students are overreacting, might take a cue from the efforts in the past few weeks of Jane Bock and Lydia Jackson who have worked under...
...looking for a job in the Ivies because I wanted to be able to sell a school and a program. I didn't want to have to go out recruiting solely on the basis of scholarship money," said Hays about her motives for coming to Harvard...
There is nothing new about using sex to sell goods. Years ago, ads were featuring well-endowed young women sprawled across the hoods of sportscars or urging Chesterfield smokers to "Blow some my way." What is new is the prurience of the pitch. Says Adman Wayne Stevens of J. Walter Thompson, one of the nation's largest ad agencies: "There's a tremendous market out there and a tremendous effort to be noticed, to be different. It seems that companies, rather than playing 'me too,' are trying look at me.' And sexuality...