Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mathematical calculations, Dr. Eckert thinks, is a vital assumption: the moon has no heavy core like the earth's. Instead, it must have a heavy shell with lighter material inside. This would make the moon more reluctant to turn on its axis, and the extra resistance would account for its computer-calculated shift of orbit...
...impossible to write an up-to-date account of life in China: a new campaign may be launched while you type your notes. The only thing that remains sure is that the vitality never changes, the energy of the people is never peaked. No matter what they set their hands to-- Killing sparrows or winning a swimming race--the Chinese put their entire strength into it. For every task, there are 1000 volunteers...
...very pleased. "Our goal for this course was to get under 8:40 sometime during the season," he said afterwards. Conditions for the race were almost perfect, he said. A stiff breeze blow across the boats' port side, but Parker wasn't sure that it was astern enough to account for the fast time...
Cabot also said that the University has no Texas Gulf Sulfur stock now in its general investment account. He doubted that there was any of the stock in other Harvard funds either...
...main reason that the Dow-Jones averages have not kept pace with other stocks is that the large institutions, which account for 25% of the market's trading and deal mostly in blue chips, have been sitting on their cash. Surveying the mutual funds, pension funds and insurance companies, E. F. Hutton & Co. found that, from January to April, 20 out of 25 of them sold more than they bought. In last week's surge, insiders spied a change in the institutions' attitude. Reported Bache & Co. to its customers: "The institutions, which were on the sidelines...