Word: bunkerism
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...system goes by the cumbersome name of NASDAQ, for National Association of Security Dealers Automated Quotations. It was developed at a cost of $23 million by Bunker-Ramo Corp., and gives instant readings on 2,374 of the most actively traded stocks on the over-the-counter market. Another 200 will be added this month, and eventually as many as 20,000 of the approximately 50,000 over-the-counter stocks will be included. At present, NASDAQ lists only companies that have at least $1,000,000 in assets, 500 stockholders and a stock that sells for $3 a share...
After his last session with Vien & Co., Abrams and white-haired U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker swept into President Thieu's Saigon Palace ?brushing past a phalanx of startled Vietnamese officials who had been waiting to offer the President Tet holiday greetings. Not until four days later, when they were summoned to an urgent briefing at MACV headquarters in Saigon, did reporters have any idea that something was afoot...
...Command, Viet Nam), next to Saigon's airport. He is at work at 7:30 a.m. seven days a week. In his map-lined office he dips regularly into one of the cigar humidors that, surround him. He confers three or four times a week with U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, three times with General Cao Van Vien, the South Vietnamese chief of staff, and even more often with his intelligence officer. Whenever he can, he choppers to the field and once a month flies to Bangkok to visit his wife...
...Gurion was impressed but occasionally baffled. Inside one of the intricate bunkers along the Bar-Lev line, he demanded: "What kind of Hebrew word is 'bunker'?" An escort explained: "We use 'bunker' because we have not yet got around to Hebraizing defense terminology. On offense we have no foreign words." The old lion stopped before a group of soldiers and fixed his eyes on one. "You're younger than I," said Ben-Gurion. "Perhaps you can tell me when there will be peace." "I?" responded the soldier. "Who knows? It depends on the Arabs." Replied...
...Californians faced an even worse spill last week. This time two Standard Oil of California tankers collided in dense fog under Golden Gate Bridge and drifted helplessly into San Francisco Bay. With a 40-ft. gash in her hull, the Oregon Standard gushed 1,000,000 gallons of bunker fuel oil that soon coated beaches and wildlife sanctuaries for 50 miles of the coast. Some people were so incensed at Standard Oil that they hurled plastic bags full of oil at the company's downtown San Francisco office and dumped dead fish into the building's ornamental pool...