Word: sell
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Gabor, whose first choice is not a candidate this time: "Nixon would know how to deal with the Iranian militants: get a million dollars baksheesh and pay them off. They steal a ring off your ringer and sell it back to you. Nixon understands...
...Hanoi did not break the market economy. Small merchants gradually returned to Saigon to sell their wares, even though they had to do so on the streets and bribe local officials for the privilege. By last year the regime had abandoned its aim of completely crushing Saigon's entrepreneurial spirit...
Today street vendors sell wares that on any given day may include French bicycles, Australian butter and Japanese beer-all at princely prices. A single can of root beer may fetch $6, a carton of cigarettes $140. The main source of the imports is an Air France flight that arrives every Friday from Bangkok with 45 tons of cargo. Vietnamese who live abroad but still have relatives back home send a steady stream of packages loaded with food, clothing or medicine that can be quickly sold on the black market...
...attract needed dollars, the government is resorting to vintage capitalist incentives. Saigonese with dollar accounts abroad who repatriate their wealth are rewarded with access to duty-free stores that sell imported goods. Citizens who receive dollars from relatives overseas can exchange them for Vietnamese dong at a premium rate. Businesses that make products for international trade are allowed to receive or spend dollars and gold freely. Explains one government adviser: "We don't care where the dollars come from as long as they are used to import raw materials and create new jobs." Saigon is also welcoming investment from...
...this came as one more piece of bad news to U.S. publishers, already whipsawed by inflation and recession. The IRS edict made it more costly to maintain backlists, the reserve of older and usually high-quality books that sell slowly but steadily year after year. To such houses as Knopf, Random House, Houghton Mifflin, Scribner's, and Little, Brown, backlists confer a sense of tradition and continuity whose value cannot be entirely tallied in dollars. Says Knopf Editor in Chief Robert Gottlieb: "Our intent is to keep our backlist in print as long as possible and to make those...