Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nicknamed, according to one account, because he once met a lion, frightened the beast into retreating by staring it down...
Even taking into account the fervor of fútbol fans, why had this happened? Jorge Basadre, Peru's foremost historian, tried an answer: "Our people, especially our lower classes, are full of tensions and frustrations, dark, pent-up passions and angers. This situation is becoming acute under the impact of the population explosion and the poverty of the masses. Add to this the Communist contagion. These people have lost some of their faith and hope. When this happens, then sometimes people will behave more like brutes than...
...evening. Mary Todd Lincoln (Helen Hayes) is undergoing a jury trial to determine her sanity. With an obvious desire to be frank, she begins to link any strangeness in her behavior to the inconsolable loss of three sons and the assassinated Abe. Just as the artless conviction of her account is taking hold, a spasm of madness shatters her face in fragments as if an earthquake had jaggedly ripped open the mind's thin crust. As Lincoln, Fritz Weaver brings timely eloquence to a pithy debate on civil rights...
...impact of A.T.&T.'s spend-as-you-grow plans. As proof of its faith in the economy, A.T.&T. in 1964 will undertake the largest program of expansion and modernization ever launched by any company in history. The $3.35 billion that the company will spend will account for 71% of all capital spending by U.S. business, create 180,000 new jobs in supplier companies and do much to keep the U.S. economy's greatest period of peacetime expansion going strong...
...even greater field for expansion lies in the area of business phones, which already account for fully half of A.T.&T.'s revenues. The company's new pushbutton Touch-Tone, which reduces the average "dialing" time from nine to four seconds, will make every business phone a candidate for replacement. Cost: $5 for installation, plus $1.50 to $1.90 extra a month. Another innovation that A.T.&T. recently introduced is the Card Dialer, which enables a user to reach frequently dialed numbers by slipping a punched-hole plastic card into the base of the phone. It cuts dialing time...