Word: belled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Over Gerald Ford's veto. Congress in 1974 amended the law, which now sets deadlines for responding, bans excessive copying fees for documents, and provides that winners of Freedom of Information court cases should have their legal fees paid for by the Government. Attorney General Griffin Bell applied another spur to information seekers last May, when he warned all Government agencies that his department would not defend them in court fights to preserve secrecy unless disclosure was "demonstrably harmful, even if the documents technically fall within the exemptions...
Listless and almost lifeless at times, the stock market in 1977 suffered through one of its worst years. Last New Year's Eve, the Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks closed at 1004, its year-end record. By the final bell last week, the widely watched indicator had dropped 19%, to 815. The mood on Wall Street, among the brokers and traders whose heartbeat is the daily ticker, has turned from despair to anger. Says Peter L. Bernstein, an economist-consultant to large institutional investors: "We hate stocks, we hate ourselves and our customers hate...
...score of 100 is still the norm in today's tests, although none of them use Binet's quotient formula. Instead, since scores were found to distribute themselves along a bell curve-centered at 100-individual IQs are now measured in standard deviations along such a curve. In the tests, about 68% score between 85 and 115; less than 3% score below 70-or above 130. Because scores fluctuate widely in the high IQ range, researchers have scrapped the designation genius (once defined as 140 level or above). Now they prefer more subtle terms like superior and very...
Here are the seventolls of the death bell...
There is no question, though, that Peter G. Peterson, 51, as chairman and president of the combined firm, will be calling the shots for nearly 1,800 employees. A protégé of Illinois Senator Charles Percy, Peterson succeeded Percy as chief of Bell & Howell in 1963, served in various capacities in the Nixon Administration (including Commerce Secretary), joined Lehman in 1973 and within months became chairman. The aristocratic John Mortimer Schiff, 73, now chairman of Kuhn Loeb, will become honorary chairman, and Harvey Krueger, 48, who is now president, will become chairman of the banking policy committee...