Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More important, said brokers, mutual funds moved into the market: at the end of February (the latest available official figures) the funds had $3.4 billion in cash, or 8.2% of their assets, as compared with a normal ratio of 5% or 6%. Some analysts believe that March saw a buildup to $10 billion cash...
...young man at the age of 23 can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder!" declared Con ductor Walter Damroseh), the work has never been recorded until now. The New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein conducting, provides a gentle-to-jazzy buildup for Organist E. Power Biggs...
...discussion of Viet Nam reflected no basic change in his ideas but a shift of emphasis. As early as 1954, the then Vice President believed that U.S. troops should be sent to save the French from defeat in Indo-China. After the Johnson Administration began its major U.S. buildup eleven years later, Nixon supported the commitment in principle, but criticized its implementation, finding fault with the gradualism of the war effort...
...cool, controlled advocate during more than ten hours of grilling, Rusk assured the committee that an "A to Z" review of the war was going on within the Administration. That hardly assuaged the committee's fears of a buildup of as many as 200,000 additional men. By week's end, word leaked out that the Administration-perhaps as a partial reaction to the hearing-had ruled out a massive troop increase. One spokesman said that the prospect is more likely to be a moderate buildup in the coming months...
...Belgium, Italy's state-owned oil company AGIP, and a string of individual British investors. In 1969, the Phillips group will begin pumping natural gas ashore from its field at Hewett Bank, 20 miles off the East Anglican coast, under a 25-year contract that calls for a buildup to 350,000,000 cu. ft. daily by the seventh year of the agreement. The price: 2.87? a therm...