Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What investors must also be alert to is the old saw that when the little guy starts buying, the smart money is already pulling out. Says Walter Perschke, president of Numisco, a Chicago gold brokerage house: "Everyone wants to get into the gold boat. What they do not realize is that when everyone gets in, the boat sinks." If a great many large investors move to take their profits, the sinking could be rapid. Although there is no evidence of this happening yet, smaller investors who are unable to sell quickly could find that gold fever is not only contagious...
...TIME from the start. He was endlessly accessible-the unphoniest man I ever met," recalls PEOPLE Magazine Publisher Richard Durrell. He liked and admired those who came to work for TIME; he treated them to an abundance of his intelligent attention and personal warmth. He was also an exceptionally alert recruiter of new talent. Remembers Heiskell: "He was terribly proud of bringing up people, making them into something." Among his discoveries were James Agee, who became TIME'S film critic, and Sloan Wilson, who worked as Larsen's assistant and modeled his best-selling 1955 novel...
...maker of Valium and Librium, contends that the incidence of addiction is low. The problem, says the company, comes from a small group of patients who either intentionally overdose themselves, stay on the medication too long or combine it with alcohol. Nevertheless, the company plans an educational campaign to alert patients to the risks of misusing Valium...
McLaughlin is one of those far-reaching business chiefs who think about a lot more than balance sheets. He is a big gun in the country's most socially aware and alert business community. Prodded by McLaughlin and others, 45 Minneapolis-area companies donate 5% of pretax profits to charity and are active in all manner of civic uplift projects. And so it is not surprising that McLaughlin is concerned much less about snow than about something more universal: water...
Didion as a rule uses her self-dramatizations with an artist's instinctive discretion. She is an alert and subtle observer, with a mordant intelligence and a sense of humor with touches of Evelyn Waugh in it. She offers a lethal description of fatuous Hollywood political chatter. " 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,' some one said to me at dinner not long ago, and before we had finished our fraises des bois, he had advised me as well that 'no man is an island.' " The White Album is full...