Word: almost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...declared the National Citizens Com mittee for Broadcasting, a TV watchdog group, in a recent statement calling for the overhaul of commercial television-licensing procedures. Over the two decades since major television channels were first assigned by the Federal Govern ment, renewals of three-year broadcast licenses have been almost automatic...
...biggest gainers of 1968 managed to climb at all in this year's first half. Their showing confirmed Wall Street's axiom that"go-go" funds can seldom put together two good years in a row because it is almost impossible consistently to pick stocks that will spectacularly outperform the mar ket. Last year's rich winners were those fund managers who correctly foresaw that the market would rally after President Johnson's renunciation. This year those managers failed to anticipate that the market would tumble after bankers raised the prime rate to 81/2...
Assuming the Risk. Merchants are usually receptive to the credit-card plans because the banks pay them almost immediately for merchandise charged on the cards and assume all risks for deadbeats. The banks only deduct about 3% as a fee, compared with 4% to 6% usually charged by other commercial credit-card companies...
...illustration was almost a duplicate of the Northeast ad; it showed a slippered, pillowed, fur-wrapped executive in a plane seat about to attack his meal. A well-received Hertz ad, showing a weary traveler arriving in a strange city, was copied closely for an RCA announcement of "an international terminal for people who hate to travel...
...reform drive in Congress threatens to reduce the 271% depletion allowance enjoyed by wildcatters, along with other drillers. Costs of drilling a well in Texas have risen 28% since 1959 and, as oil near the surface has become depleted, crews have had to go three times as deep for almost the same returns. Meanwhile, the wellhead price of oil has risen hardly at all. Partly because of climbing costs, the number of wildcat wells drilled has declined from 16,200 in 1956 to 8,900 last year. While many other countries are sharply increasing oil production in 1969, U.S. output...