Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...situation right out of Ec 10. A secondary market was in operation, but because of imperfections in information exchange--or something like that--buyers and sellers were having trouble coming together in the marketplace to attain an equilibrium price. And judging by most of the prices being asked, it was a seller's market...
...recently received a $3,000 fine for making illegal contributions to the 1972 Nixon campaign, bought the 17th century masterpiece for $3.25 million from Navy Secretary J. William Middendorf II. The most highly priced Rembrandt ever sold, the painting will eventually land in the Los Angeles County Museum. "The seller was asking $5 million," said the magnate philosophically, "so I think $3.25 million is a bargain...
...slew of the leading textbooks written and used by Harvard professors to teach their courses met few hurdles on the rise to the best-seller list. Many are now used in courses here because there are no competitors in their field. Such is the case with Y.C. Ho's "Applied Optimal Control," which the co-author used to teach Engineering 202, "Optimization and Control of Deterministic and Dynamic Systems." Ho and Arthur Bryson, who first taught the course here and then moved to teach at Stanford, compiled their voluminous lecture notes, making their ground-breaking work accessible to thousands...
...Manhattan last week displayed numerous ways that manufacturers could use polyester fibers other than in conventional double-knit materials, which appear to be falling out of favor with consumers who have shifted back to cotton and wool. Shapiro has also moved to assure that Du Pont, a major seller of raw materials, has adequate supplies for its own operations. The company has entered into a venture with ARCO to build a $1 billion chemical refinery in Texas; Du Pont and National Distillers & Chemical Corp. also plan to build a $100 million methanol plant...
...Falk as the hard-boiled Frisco detective, Sam Diamond, whose uncouth manner provides an entertaining contrast to the cocktailparty elegance of Dick and Dora Charleston, played to perfection by David Niven and Maggie Smith, and the genteel prissiness of James Coco as the corpulent Belgian detective, Milo Perrier. Peter Seller's performance as the continually proverb-coining Sidney Wang is decidedly bland, however, which comes as a surprise and disappointment, since his impersonations are often so uproariously funny, and the Oriental bit has, in the past, been one of his finest. Seller's acting...