Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dean Ford, for example, would only say, "I was in Washington on Tuesday." Another participant explained, "We agreed among ourselves before the meeting not to talk about it. There is no reason now to break this agreement...
...musicians have donated 25% of their salaries to pay for the girls' meals. Box-office receipts at the Music Hall, which has slapped together an interim show of flashing lights and music, have dropped by an estimated 15%. By week's end, the two sides were nearing agreement, but whatever else they accomplish, the Rockettes have made it clear to star-struck cheerleaders that, as Linda Farmer says, "all the glamour is on the audience side of the footlights...
...additional funds. The current $70 billion defense budget, approved only last week, includes $817 million for development and deployment of the system; another $168 million was appropriated last year for work on Nike X but never used. The decision to deploy the "thin" defense does not preclude future agreement with Moscow-though once U.S. and Russian ABMs are in place, it will be difficult to dismantle them. Further, the thin line could later be thickened if U.S. strategists concluded that Moscow posed a real threat of a missile attack...
...reap a windfall of earnings as the economy picks up. Reflecting this root distrust, Ackley recently took special pains to chide the rubber industry for following a strike-forced labor settlement that was "clearly out of line" with price hikes "even greater than the added costs of the wage agreement...
Despite such signs of investor confidence, many critics consider the leasing companies highly vulnerable to risks beyond their control. Admits President W. Carroll Bumpers of GC Computer: "The independents have to fathom when to slow down leasing of third-generation equipment because of obsolescence." There is little agreement among experts as to when that stage will arrive. While the immediate prospects for the computer-leasing companies seem bright, their profits could plunge, leaving them with a mountain of debt, if the fourth generation of computers reaches the marketplace sooner than they expect. The crucial time will probably arrive...