Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paine Webber did select three stocks-the "best of a bad bunch"-as possible buys "in a more favorable market environment than now exists." A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. for its "unique position" at the retail end of the industry; Merrill Lynch for its leadership of the industry and First Boston, Inc. for its strong position on the institutional side. Merrill Lynch is preparing its own report on the industry, and it is likely to be gloomy. The TV ads will continue to proclaim that "Merrill Lynch is bullish on America," but the firm is less than bullish...
...begins as a typical, if pathetic, Mother's Day visit. Carrying a bunch of daffodils, a woman enters an old folks' home to visit her aged mum. After some small talk, their conversation abruptly shifts to suicide. "How many have you brought?" asks the mother. "Fifteen...
...pelted it with eggs, set off firecrackers, and chanted through bullhorns: "Walinsky, you liar/ We'll set your house on fire." They kept at it for an hour, while the police watched uneasily. Asks Walinsky: "Why do people who claim to want human rights go around like a bunch of Storm Troopers trying to intimidate others from expressing their views...
...year-old L.A.'s response to the "carpetbaggers," as some Californians dubbed Felker's forces, was to spruce up its graphics, sharpen its point of view and attract a bunch of bright new byliners. The defenders were helped by all the hoopla Felker fomented: in effect, it sold Southern Californians on the notion that they deserved a first-rate magazine. Since February 1976, L.A.'s circulation has soared from 90,000 to 128,566. Ad pages are up 50% (to 184 pages in August) over .he same period. L.A. ranks No. 3 (after Yachting and Trailer Life...
...defenders had thought. In June a rat pack of young Swedish ruffians clashed with a group of Assyrian immigrants from the Middle East in Södertälje near Stockholm; it was the third such encounter of the year. Last week, in the southern port of Malmo, another bunch of toughs set out to terrorize 300 gypsy families, most of them from Czechoslovakia and Russia, who live in a local development...