Word: complains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...produce an explosive rally, but investment men are already predicting that it would not last; everyone knows only too well that the unpredictable Arabs can always turn off the flow again. Analysts who can usually produce a string of "buy" recommendations every day are throwing up their hands; they complain that they simply cannot forecast 1974 or 1975 earnings of major companies. About the only stocks they can recommend are those of a handful of firms that stand to benefit from the energy crisis: coal companies, some railroads, makers of mining and drilling gear and firms that design or make...
...terms on a two-year $31.7 million contract for the telecasts of national football game-of-the-week. Somehow the $244,000 each college receives to appear on ABC during the season (up $28,500 over last fall) instill character and teach lessons of teamwork and sacrifice. And we complain about violations of the amateur status of Soviet athletes...
Though some reporters and desk-men complain about adjustment problems, News executives are certain that their investment will pay off in increased efficiency and better distribution. Once stories are edited in the newsroom, computers transmit them to the printing plant, set type photographically at 300 lines a minute and partially control the operation of six new three-story-high presses. The changes mean that late-breaking stories can get into the paper 15 minutes before press time, as compared with the hour required previously...
...been given a cent. Because of nonpayment of rent, the Samuel Goldwyn studios locked up the Hollywood offices, impounded the furniture and filed suit against America on the Move. Thelma Gray's firm, T. Gray & Associates, claims that the operation still owes it $59,000. Loudest to complain have been the parents of high school students who were supposed to win savings bonds in the essay contest. After an avalanche of letters, McMahon finally started making some awards. "I'm paying out of my own pocket," he says, "because I couldn't live with the letters from...
Some Japanese complain that the project is too costly, even for prosperous Japan, and that the money would be better spent on the country's own overcrowded universities. To be sure, none of the other interested nations felt that they could afford anything like the Japanese pitch. Which is, of course, why the Japanese offer seems to be one that the U.N. Assembly can hardly refuse...