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...earns $2 per share, and its stock sells for $34, its price/earnings ratio is 17. P/E ratios can be figured out by anyone with a pencil, a stack of paper and access to stock-price quotations and quarterly earnings reports ?but there is no longer any need to bother. The Associated Press has begun including P/E ratios for every common stock* on the New York and American exchanges in the daily market tables that it sends out. So far, 15 major papers, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post, carry...
...final note, The Crimson requested copies from the Coop of the current and former insurance and pension plans. General Manager Howard W. Davis denied both requests, saying that portions were liable to be "misconstrued." Davis has since told The Crimson "not to bother" Coop employees with further questions on the pension program or other matters. Mark C. Frazier
...week-long trial, polemics replaced punches, with the accused in effect becoming the accusers. All but one of the defendants admitted having dynamited 18 public and private buildings in Brittany over a twelvemonth period that ended last April. With the charges virtually undisputed, the prosecution did not bother to call a single witness. But the defendants used their days in court to speak out eloquently and emotionally on the economic exploitation and political neglect of their region...
Even the ragged corps work did not bother the Tbilisians, who were out to welcome their second most famous native son (after Stalin). Though born in Leningrad (in 1904), Balanchine comes from Georgian stock. Among those on hand to greet him was his brother Andrei Balanchivadze, 66, a prominent if somewhat outdated composer, a three-year-old grandnephew, also named Andrei, and scores of other Georgians claiming kinship and free tickets...
...half an hour while a complete plaster mold is made of his face and body, and store men record him laughing and saying yes (or crying and saying no) on a tape that is inserted into the dummy. What consumers can do with the dummies after all that bother, the Neiman-Marcus nabobs do not say; one waggish suggestion is that a wife could take a dummy of her husband to a party, while the flesh-and-blood husband stayed home watching TV, and few if any guests would notice...