Word: burdens
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...system, says New York Stock Exchange Executive Vice President R. John Cunningham, 41, the man responsible for getting it under way, "relieves brokers of the burden of storing, checking and accounting for stock." Nonetheless, the upsurge in trading-volume on the Big Board is averaging a hectic 12,479,000 shares a day in 1968-means that the C.C.S. alone will probably not be enough even after it is in full operation. So acute is Wall Street's paper deluge that the Big Board has been forced to impose restrictions, including bans on registration of new securities salesmen...
...hundreds of localities and in thousands of concerned hearts, bridge building between the races is under way. Often the instrument is one human spirit, galvanized by an intolerable burden of contrition or shame. "I came to the conclusion that our country is very far from what we say it is in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution," says Alan S. Traugott, 44, of Glen Ellyn, Ill., a white suburb west of Chicago. In March, this conviction led Traugott to resign his five-figure income and position as manager of the Sears, Roebuck store in Englewood, a Chicago neighborhood that...
...burden of proof is still with Goldwater, and his side has not yet tried to demonstrate that Ginzburg entertained serious doubts about the truth of what he was publishing. Indeed, many uninvolved lawyers who have dropped in to watch (and there have been an unusual number) do not see how Goldwater can possibly win. Even if he should, they point out, the appeals court might well overturn any verdict in his favor...
...leave of absence-to work on specific projects. Despite all the fuss at Columbia over IDA, none of its professors are actually on the IDA payroll, although about 300 have signed up to serve when needed as part-time consultants. Columbia President Grayson Kirk and Columbia Trustee William Burden serve on IDA's executive committee...
...Portnoy's upbringing is not exclusively Jewish; it was a characteristic carryover from a time in the '20s and '30s when many immigrants and first-generation Americans saw their sons as Columbuses who would lead the family to security and status in the New World. The burden of these aspirations has left many of those Columbuses with painful kinks...