Word: charts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ship-clearing operation had begun smoothly enough. For two days Israeli soldiers idly watched from the east bank while Egyptian tugs probed south of the midway port of Ismailia to chart an exit channel past sunken obstacles (scuttled ships, downed jets). Then, breaking a tacit understanding with Israel that they would clear only the southern half of the canal, the Egyptians suddenly announced that they also wanted to look over the canal's northern half. The Israelis immediately suspected an Egyptian maneuver aimed not only at reopening the canal's entire 107-mile length but perhaps at clearing...
...chart-covered offices of banks, brokerages and mutual funds, computers constantly scan the stock lists to spot companies or entire industries that appear to be breaking out of their usual earnings pattern. Once an uptrend is noted, word quickly gets around; analysts go to the same meetings, tend to eat at the same places. They constantly talk with each other on local or long-distance phones. Brokerage houses also pass on their research findings to mutual funds and other institutions in hope of landing their enormous commission business. Says an officer of one Boston-based mutual fund: "A stock often...
...S.A.T., a doom to your plans to take such intangible qualities as creativity, motivation and curiosity and reduce them to the realm of the tangible by assigning a number score to them. These are all an American kid has left to call his own. In other areas he can chart his performance by comparison with that of the rest of the nation, thereby diminishing, to some degree, the sense of the unique and the special. With this final invasion of his privacy you commit the ultimate putdown. May your computers clog...
Surrounded by tropical plants, tempted by lavish, leggy entertainment and cosseted in garish luxury to the background swish of the Florida surf, the potentates of American labor forgathered in Miami Beach last week to chart a future in which, as one delegate put it, "every butcher one day can come down here and play." The 1,200 delegates from 126 unions were joined by so weighty an array of Administration brass that Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz dubbed the meeting "the first joint convention of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and the Cabinet...
...newspapers to warn the President: "From this day on, our campaign funds, our energies and our votes go to those, and only those, who work for an end to the war in Viet Nam." In Chicago at week's end, the Conference of Concerned Democrats met to chart plans for slates opposed to Johnson in 15 states. Proclaimed California Congressman Don Edwards in a keynote speech: "We are not the dissenting minority. We are the voice of the American majority...