Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scarcely news that 1976 was a banner year for big companies-but just how good it was became a bit clearer last week when FORTUNE published its annual directory of the 500 largest U.S. industrial corporations. Specifically, by one important measure of profitability it was the best year since 1968. Aggregate sales of the 500 rose 12.2%, to $971 billion; profits climbed much faster, increasing 30.4%, to $49.4 billion. That meant that the median corporate blue-blood kept 4.6? of every sales dollar as net income, a seemingly modest profit margin but one that had not been matched in eight...
...thinly disguised act of terrorism." He claimed intelligence reports on his desk indicated that "once the demonstrators occupy the site, they do not plan to leave alive." The next day the top half of the front page of Loeb's paper, the Manchester Union Leader, was covered with a banner headline: "Leftist Groups Hope for Violence...
...ideas and declared that he must not be a Marxist, and Freud, who disowned his potential heirs because of the violence he felt they had done to his theoretical system, Erikson has had to dissassociate himself, genteelly, from much of the simplistic garbage that has appeared under the banner of "psycho-history...
...redistricting plan under which Martha's Vineyard would lose the seat that it has had in the state legislature for 285 years (TIME, March 21). In the unlikely event the islands cast themselves off, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island have offered to take them under their banner. Meanwhile, some of the summer crowd are lobbying for total independence. Says Opera Singer Beverly Sills: "If we do secede, I'm putting in my bid for Minister of Culture." Columnist Art Buchwald, another summer resident, says that as the new nation of Martha's Tucket, "We could...
Donovan's charges were greeted by a "Welcome Harvard Gold Team" banner draped over the front of the Ponce de Leon Inn and were then squired in a limousine to play Flagler on the Sawgrass golf club...