Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white people." To the retired worker, or to the family living on $7,000 or $8,000 in the lower civil service ranks, a tax increase on their homes or an apartment rent rise is a grave threat to the stability of a small, precarious world. Second jobs are common, credit purchases a necessity, a sense of financial security almost impossible...
...Procaccino's self-serving criteria, he has more in common with the common man than either Marchi or Lindsay. Marchi's parents were Italian immigrants also, but of slightly higher standing than Mario's. Marchi's father came
...tremors, U.S. consumers have turned cautious in their buying habits. They are shopping harder for bargains, postponing some planned purchases of costly items and hesitating about buying on credit. "We see a marked change over the past four weeks," says Ernest Molloy, president of Macy's, echoing a common sentiment among merchants. Caught in a pincers, they feel squeezed both by the rising costs of doing business and by mounting consumer resistance...
...built his $275 million fortune on airlines, hotels and Las Vegas gambling, last week added another potentially rich prize to his leisure and travel domain. He won control of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the ailing moviemaker, with a stunningly successful tender offer for some $26 million of its common stock at $42 a share. In August, Kerkorian had picked up 22% of MOM's stock through another tender. Now his holdings will rise to at least 32% and perhaps to as much as 45% of the company's shares, depending on how much of an estimated $59 million worth...
...that the raff ish upstart has built I.O.S. assets to $1.8 billion, he has become too rich and powerful to deride. Investment hous es seek Cornfeld's favor, and continental bankers have begun imitating his sales methods. Last week I.O.S. brought out its first public offering of common stock, and eager investors abroad bid the shares to a large premium...