Word: account
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...Please accept my thanks for the story on Southern Baptists [Nov. 26]. As a Southern Baptist layman, I am especially eager for Americans to have a factual account of how we stand as a denomination in this important area of our national life. The picture you present is precisely correct. We have come a long way and are still moving miraculously further toward the goal of acting like Christians about integration...
...York City, Livingston Wingate, executive director of Harlem's HARYOU-ACT youth agency, stepped down at least temporarily from his regular duties last week, ostensibly to work full time on the agency's books. Official audits have not yet been completed, but HARYOU reportedly is unable to account for up to $2,000,000 of the funds it has received in the past year...
...endangering the national interest. In his defense, he quoted British Philosopher Walter Bagehot: "When a historian withholds important facts likely to influence the judgment of his readers, he commits a fraud." (But Schlesinger himself ignored that injunction when, according to a friend, he decided to omit a similar account of how Kennedy had been planning to dump FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover...
...tell whether the uncommitted of his study are permanently uncommitted or not. If not--as is probably the case--then much of Keniston's indignation, and the justification for the book itself is called into question. The Uncom- mitted would then amount to no more than a highly empathic account of young people at an uncertain moment of their lives, plus some social and psychological reasons why their uncertainty should be so extreme...
...those blue-chip blues, the market seems solidly based and conservatively priced. Most of the trading is being done by savvy professionals and cautious institutions. Small investors account for a small (less than 10%) and steadily declining proportion of the volume. Most important, the key "price-earnings ratio" is low. Stocks in the Dow-Jones industrial average are selling for only 18.6 times their average per-share earnings-which is 7% below last year's level and 27% lower than the level just before the 1962 market break...