Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their forbidding, mechanical bulk, the intricate electronic computers that control so much of U.S. science and industry are often sociable contraptions. Like the human beings who built them, they occasionally succumb to a compulsive need for communication with others of their own kind. Faced with a problem that seems too tough to solve, one computer is perfectly capable of seeking help from another...
...Kennedy's key proposals: FREIGHT RATES. The ICC could no longer set minimum rates, only maximum rates. At present, the commission firmly fixes all railroad freight rates, while allowing truckers to set their own rates for farm goods and permitting barge operators to charge what they want for bulk commodities such as grain, ore, oil and coal...
Front Man Wanted. By right of might, the man in control was General Poggi, 53, an anti-Perón soldier-engineer who has spent the bulk of his career in the Argentine army's industrial branch-a curiously unmilitary pet project of Perón's that still operates such fruitful enterprises as steel plants, chemical complexes, vehicle-assembly plants and motor-scooter factories. For a front man to give a semblance of legality, the military sounded out Senate President (pro tern) José Maria Guido, 52, a small-town lawyer and a member of Frondizi...
...contrast, the Edsel fiasco cost Ford Motor Co. about $200 million.) With the 1961 write-offs, the great bulk of G.D.'s jet transport losses had presumably been accounted for, and some Wall Streeters were predicting that the company might earn as much as $3.75 a share this year. But under the terms of a $135 million Prudential loan, which requires General Dynamics to make up past losses before it pays out any more cash dividends, shareholders can expect dividends only after future earnings "exceed
...Passion Rejected. Their rambling house in Palo Alto quickly began to attract streams of visitors, many of them students and professors from Stanford University. When Michael died of cancer in 1938, Sarah promised that she would leave the bulk of her collection to Stanford. But as time passed, friends began to notice some disturbing changes in Sarah. The beautiful Matisses that had been her life's consuming passion began to seem of no importance to her. It turned out that she was selling off the collection piece by piece at ridiculously low sums to pay for her grandson...