Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...telling piece of evidence is the flight of more than 1,000,000 South Vietnamese to the cities in the past year. Whatever their reasons-war-weariness, the lure of jobs or plain fear of the guerrillas-their exodus has markedly reduced the Viet Cong's rural base...
...Minnesota Twins and the Detroit Tigers need heavy slugging from their superstars, Harmon Killebrew and Al Kaline. Yet as of last week, Minnesota's Killebrew had clouted only three home runs in his last 68 times at bat, and Detroit's Kaline had collected only four base hits in his last 24 trips to the plate...
...offer that would raise wages and benefits by about 4% in each of the next three years; wages would go up by 130 an hour the first year, about 110 an hour during each of the next two. That would gradually raise the typical Ford worker's weekly base pay, at present $146, to about $160. The U.A.W. has called for annual wage-benefit increases of 6%, which would boost weekly income to about $174. So far apart are the two positions that Ford did not even bother to sweeten the pot with a last-minute offer...
After standing at unaccustomed ease through the spring and most of the long summer, prices are beginning an upward march. The consumer price index, which had been slowly creeping up earlier in the year, increased 0.4% in July to a record 116.5-or 16.5% above the 1957-59 base level. More significant was a stirring in the cost of basic industrial products that generally foreshadows general price trends. After five months of stability, industrial goods rose a substantial 0.3% in August...
...classic route of price cutting. They generally charge at least 10% less than the manufacturer's rental fee. In doing so, they are betting that they can keep their costly machines continuously leased for as long as ten years, or about double the payoff time on which manufacturers base their own rents...