Word: clipping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dickey reads his poems at a rapid clip in a loud, racy voice. Most poets simply intone; Dickey almost roars. His performance in Lowell Lecture Hall featured more commentary than poetry; his gift as a raconteur tends to run away with him. In the space of about fifty minutes he read perhaps seven shortish poems, the balance of time being taken up with tales of Civil War relics and films about Jean Harlow. His audience ate it up. His touch of natural Southern rhetoric is quickly evident; he is somewhat oratorical even in conversation. His whole manner is flavored with...
...meet of sacrifice for Harvard captain Jim Baker. Unchallenged in seven dual meets and the Greater Boston Championships, Baker went out at a killing clip over the first two miles to break up the Yale and Princeton blocks...
What Is a Conglomerate? So far this year, major U.S. business mergers have been moving at a record clip of 150 a month. But what sets the present wave of mergers apart is not so much its volume as its nature. Over 70% of the mergers have been of the conglomerate variety. The reason for this is that antitrust rulings have virtually outlawed "horizontal" mergers (between competitors) and, to a lesser extent, "vertical" ones (with suppliers or customers). As a result, today's merger-minded companies are looking for partners in industries far afield from their...
Behn himself became an anachronism, a courtly man who still relished leisurely, ten-course lunches at a time when the rest of the business world was moving at a breakneck clip. In 1956, a year before he died at 75, Behn finally relinquished his tight grip on the company. About the only achievement of his immediate successors (and Geneen's immediate predecessors) was to drop the ampersand-making it ITT instead...
...considered the best trend indicator. "It's the princess line all over again," says a buyer. Like Ohrbach's, Alexander's was active in the Italian mar ket too. It will display a stunning brown wool trench coat by Heinz Riva with an oversize paper-clip belt ("Everything is belted this year-the belts go any place from right under the bosom to down over the hips...