Word: churn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...director of the four-year-old U.S.A. Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Arbatov heads a think tank of approximately 80 so-called Amerikanisti-the Kremlin's answer to Kremlinologists. They represent a new breed of Soviet information specialist who analyze facts rather than churn out propaganda. "We are neither professional peacemakers nor professional propagandists," Arbatov told TIME Correspondent John Shaw in Moscow last week, as he puffed on a Winston. "We are Marxists-Leninists, but within that frame of reference there is plenty of scope for understanding...
...sympathies were with the dog. I had to churn by hand...
Last year, the thespians of Dunster House created something of a success de scandale out of a musical comedy version of the life of Christ entitled The Greatest Musical Ever Sung: this year they've turned to the slightly less miraculous career of Richard Milhous Nixon in order to churn out a sequel. However, a good deal of the check has disappeared in making the transition from the purportedly profane to the presumably partisan. Nixon!, exclamation point or no exclamation point, is certainly nothing to write your home congressman about...
...LAND. Each day residents of New York City churn out 23,000 tons of garbage. Each day garbage men burn it in incinerators located around the city or dump it as landfill in swamps and other areas within the city's five boroughs. But incineration adds to New York's air pollution, and landfill areas are rapidly vanishing. What to do with the daily mountain of garbage? Treat it, answers a company called Ecology, Inc., and then sell the end product...
...forced to fold. For their part, the mutual-fund men contend that there is more at stake than the row over commissions. They say that the brokers' entry into the mutual-fund business raises grave questions of conflict of interest. One reason: brokers may be tempted to "churn" the portfolios of their own mutual funds-that is, buy and sell excessively in order to earn commissions. Last week's move by Dreyfus is not so much aimed at compelling the exchange to allow mutual funds to go into the brokerage business, as forcing the brokerages...