Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Across the country, many stores are holding heavily promoted early summer sales to lure economy-minded customers. Some Chicago stores, for example, are marking down lawn furniture, usually a brisk seller at this time of year, by 30% to 40%. Worried retailers are either cutting or holding back on fall orders...
Brown's piercing rejoinder was typical of his performance at the Senate hearings, where he has emerged as the most effective SALT seller. While Brown has urged approval of the accord, he stressed that U.S. military forces must be bolstered to offset Moscow's continuing arms buildup. That SALT II would be no substitute for accelerated U.S. defense spending was argued even more strongly by five other witnesses, the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Chairman David Jones warned the Committee against "the risk that SALT II could be allowed to become a tranquilizer to the American people." Said...
...ground it lost in the mid-1970s to the Japanese trio of Toyota, Datsun and Honda. While Volkswagen's sales rose 13% worldwide dur ing this year's first half, they spurted ahead 41% in the U.S., where the company is now the fourth largest seller of foreign cars, with 3.4% of the market. Volkswagen's goal is a 5% share, and it could easily sell more cars now if it had them...
Right in its path was Rancher John Seller, who was asleep in his house at Noondoonia Station, a 50-sq.-mi. sheep spread 480 miles east of Perth, Western Australia's capital city. Just 35 minutes after midnight, he and his wife, Elizabeth, were shaken awake by a loud noise. They ran outside. Said Seiler: "It was an incredible sight-hundreds of shining lights dropping all around the homestead. They were white, but as they began dropping, the pieces turned dull red. All the time there was a tremendous sonic boom...
Michael Maccoby '54 is a psychologist living in Washington, D.C., and author of the 1976 best seller, The Gamesman. He was president of The Crimson...