Word: broached
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure way to turn stockbrokers into reticent men is to broach the sensitive subject of their profits. Securities dealers owe much of their livelihood to investor confidence built up by public disclosure of corporate earnings. Yet the overwhelming majority of them consider their own net incomes to be nobody else's business. This double standard is well entrenched, wholly legal and-at least from a broker's view point-eminently logical. After all, partly by resisting demands for more such data, Wall Street has so far fended off the Securities and Exchange Commission's four-year...
While George Romney went a slumming, theWhite House turned a shrewd distaff eye upon the countryside. Accompanied by a Cabinet-rank coterie, the President's wife last week took off on a four-day, seven-state Midwest trek to broach a new Johnsonian quest: Can the U.S. slow the hegira to the cities, haul the hamlets out of hibernation, and reverse the overwhelming demographic thrust of the century...
...Western Europe to discuss their "collective security." By the terms of the Soviet proposal, the U.S., not being European, would be excluded. Such a conference would also imply de facto recognition of East Germany. Thus the notion was ignored in the West, except by the Danes, who may well broach in Brussels a joint NATO-Warsaw Pact conference-including the U.S. But Washington has an antipathy to any major conference in which the outcome is cloudy, and even the Danes cannot see any way around the problem of East Germany's representation at such a gathering...
...possibilities that Crooks is considering is a joint program with M.I.T. Though he has yet to broach the idea with Institute officials, he mentioned it in his letter to Dean Ford...
...second, more serious problem that many people have with Johnson is the charge that the President, in contrast to John Kennedy, will fail to articulate or even broach new issues. They fear that Johnson will be so concerned about being President of all the people that he will ignore the needs of some of the people, that the attainment of a national consensus will require such elaborate compromise as to render further progress impossible...