Word: brightened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ordinarily, talk about higher taxes is not very cheery. But U.S. stock and bond investors last week seemed to brighten up just when word got out that the Johnson Administration was seriously considering tax increases as an adjunct to tight money in the fight against inflation. Both stock and bond prices improved, but then at week's end, the stock market lost about a third of the week's gains, partly because the impression grew that Washington might not act swiftly...
...brawny arms exactly three times in the past 16 years. And four times the U.S. team went down even before the Challenge Round, including last year, when it lost fo Spain., No one is claiming the silverware this year-not quite yet, anyway. But the gloom is beginning to brighten. Last week, in the American Zone finals in Cleveland, the U.S. walloped a powerful Mexican squad 5-0, and the heroes were a pair of eager youngsters with little or no Davis Cup experience...
MORGAN! David Warner and Vanessa Red grave brighten a black British comedy in which a fey young artist is destroyed by his emotional dependence on Karl Marx, King Kong and his former wife...
...superlative 1965 reports provoked an obvious question: Could the results be surpassed in 1966? Perhaps, but the margin of increase is likely to be less. This year there is no corporate tax reduction to brighten balance sheets. Costs are also increasing, and most companies will have to lay out more money in overtime pay as the pool of available labor lessens. Estimates are that, as contrasted to last year's 19% increase, corporate earnings will probably rise only another...
...dissent. He feels confident that he can double circulation to 60,000 within 18 months and show a modest profit-the first since 1944. He plans a big promotion campaign on college campuses, where he believes most potential $10-a-year subscribers are concentrated. He will also brighten up the magazine's layout and typography and improve the quality of its paper...