But the one that upset the financially wise was the professional dancer who related in a book how he parlayed his earnings into a $2,000,000 profit on the stock market.

Every man who dabbles in the market to make a little easy money on the side and suffers losses could at the time hardly face his wife who was wondering how her husband could be so dumb.

It was the doctor, dressed and ready for the expedition to the market, and Alex was obliged to prepare himself in haste.

that General Motors' share of the market for these products was substantial ; ;

and that competition for this share of the market was endangered by the financial relationship between the two concerns: ``

If, in the trustee's judgment, `` reasonable market conditions '' did not prevail during any given year, he was to be allowed to petition the court for an extension of time within the ten-year period.

In spite of the fact that our largest market, the textile industry, was affected substantially by the current decline in business activity, we have been able to produce and deliver our machines throughout the year 1960 at a rate materially higher than during 1959.

set production ( excluding those destined for the export market ) also ran ahead in the early months, but was curtailed after the usual vacation shutdowns in the face of growing evidence that some of the early production plans had been overly optimistic.

As the number of reported freight car loadings increased, this was taken to indicate increased industrial activity, and consequently increased stock earnings, implying fatter dividends, and implying therefore increased stock market prices.

A measure of how hot the stock was, can be found in what happened to it on the market as soon as trading began.

But the Morton Foods issue was hot long before it was on the market.

Both of those have had dynamic run-ups in price on the market in recent months, both were selling at higher price-earnings and yield bases than Morton was coming to market at, and everyone who knew anything about it expected the Morton stock to have a fast run-up.

Initially, Hamrick's reaction to A-Z going into the passenger car market was discouraging.

The private transaction was reported in a 2009 article in The Economist, which described Warhol as the " bellwether of the art market ".

However, the stock market was used as a " third shareholder " in previous versions of the game.

This project was an important proof-of-concept for steel technology, which marked the opening of a new steel market.

It was the first corporation in the world with a market capitalization over $ 1 billion.

Perhaps the most famous video card in the North American market was the NewTek Video Toaster.

The Electron was developed during 1983 as a cheap sibling for the BBC Micro with the intention of capturing the low-cost Christmas sales market for that year.

For the educational market a version of the first model was produced with a new plastic enclosure ( the First Asters had an all-metal enclosure ) that also had an opening on the top in which a cassette recorder could be placed.

The director of the company was interested in Microprocessor technology and noticed there was a market for selling kits to computer building amateurs, so they started selling electronic kits to hobbyists, and employed four persons at that time.

However, after you've seen all the historical piazzas and plazas, the places and forums, the churches and museums, the palaces and castles, and begin to feel at home in the capitals of Europe, you'll want to change your course and follow the by-roads at will, far from the market places.

By far the largest regional market was the Middle East, to which Brazil sold approximately 50 % of its arms from 1977 through 1988.

As with the rest of the automotive industry, into the 20th century bus manufacturing increasingly became globalized, with manufacturers producing buses far from their intended market to exploit labour and material cost advantages.

In the real world, a potential difficulty is that currency markets are far from a free market, with government and central banks being major players, and this is unlikely to change within the foreseeable future.

By far the most visible and obvious power of many modern central banks is to influence market interest rates ; contrary to popular belief, they rarely " set " rates to a fixed number.

Firms combine labour and capital, and can achieve far greater economies of scale ( when the average cost per unit declines as more units are produced ) than individual market trading.

As a consequence, French movies have to be amortized on a relatively small market and thus generally have budgets far lower than their American counterparts, ruling out expensive settings and special effects.

The economist Walter Block observed critically that while The Road to Serfdom is " a war cry against central planning ," it does show some reservations with a free market system and laissez-faire capitalism, with Hayek even going so far as to say that " probably nothing has done so much harm to the liberal cause as the wooden insistence of some liberals on certain rules of thumb, above all the principle of laissez-faire.

Various factors have so far stymied more diversification ( a small market of 1 million people, dependence on French imports, inability to capitalize on regional markets, lack of entrepreneurial zeal among the Gabonese, and the fairly regular stream of oil " rent ").

The Monday market has been fulfilling its age-old function of bringing people together since the times when people could not afford to travel far and it provided them with a chance to socialise.

Adult manga is often sold in convenience stores, book stores, and magazine stores in Japan, and also other public places such as airports, and is far more prolific and accessible than the U. S. adult comic book market.

In 1970, Mazda formally entered the American market ( Mazda North American Operations ) and was very successful there, going so far as to create the Mazda Rotary Pickup ( based on the conventional piston-powered B-Series model ) solely for North American buyers.

Removing them from the wild was a far more common method of supplying the market demand.

Practice on its conversion to national currencies varies from state to state ; in most states the conversion factor is based not on the market price of gold, but on an official price ( a remnant of the gold standard, frequently far below its market price today ).

As of 2006, the genre is far less dominant, representing a 2 % market share ( compared to 15 % in 1998 ), but still commercially viable, with a number of games selling in the millions of units.

While BMW sells far fewer V12-engined 7-Series vehicles than V8 versions, the V12 retains popularity in the US, China, and Russia, as well as maintaining the marque's prestige in the luxury vehicle market segment.

# Promote Gender Equality: The tide is turning slowly for women in the labor market, yet far more women than men-worldwide more than 60 % – are contributing but unpaid family workers.

This enabled a small company's product to gain acceptance in the world market since second sources from far larger companies such as Toshiba started to manufacture the device.

Many radio stations began streaming their content over the Internet, allowing a market expansion far beyond the reaches of a radio transmitter.

In so far as those who donate organs are often impoverished and those who can afford black market organs are typically well-off, it would appear that there is an imbalance in the trade.

Due to technical delays, DAT was not launched until 1989, and by then the U. S. dollar had fallen so far in relation to the yen that the introductory DAT machine Sony had intended to market for about $ 400 in the late 1980s now had to retail for $ 800 or even $ 1000 to break even, putting it out of reach for most users.

In 1850, Russia abolished the customs barrier between Congress Poland and Russia proper ; industry in Łódź could now develop freely with a huge Russian market not far away.

In the late 1970s, the Hunt brothers attempted to corner the worldwide silver market but failed, temporarily driving the price far above its historic levels and intensifying the extraction of silver coins from circulation .< REF NAME =" TEXAS "> The same process occurs today with the copper content of coins such as the pre-1997 Canadian penny, the pre-1982 United States penny and the pre-1992 UK copper pennies and two pence.