Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another Economics professor, however, Seymour E. Harris, stated that although a statistics department could correlate the techniques used in the Behavioral sciences, the content of case studies would vary widely in different areas. On this account he doubted the wisdom of expanding resources for such a "service course...
...report also called attention to the "general tendency in the Economics Department to leave undergraduate teaching to the junior members of the staff." Galbraith agreed with the committee, but saw little cause, if any, for concern on this account. "Junior members are sometimes better teachers than senior men," he said...
...pages documenting the art from its early catch-all scores (catalogued as The Slimy Viper, Gruesome Misterioso, Love's Response, etc.) to background music by such recognized modern composers as Copland, Honegger and Prokofiev, with learned descriptions of how music is photographed on film and a running account of how a film composer operates...
...General Motors went from 60 to 98;* Jersey Standard from 72 to 111; RCA from 23 to 38; Du Pont from 107 to 167; Anaconda from 30 to 52. As a group, the biggest rise (an average of 165%) came in the order-laden aircraft stocks. Taking into account splits, Douglas started at 83, rose 177 points (it gained 34 points in the last two weeks alone); Boeing started at 49 and rose 99 points; Northrop started at 18, gained 57 points. But it was not merely a war market...
What keeps authors in business is the income from book clubs, paperback re-printers, magazines and newspapers (for serialization), Hollywood, radio, TV and Broadway. These revenues now account for more than half of most writers' incomes. But some of the biggest book clubs have lost members. Although the Book-of-the-Month Club actually claims a membership increase, its guaranteed payment to publishers-of which authors get about one-half-is now down to $40,000; it was once reported as high...