Word: consisted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When an investor wants to buy shares in a typical mutual fund, he goes to one of the fund's own salesmen or to a broker who has been designated by the fund as its agent. For his services, which may include counseling but often consist of no more than filling out a form and mailing it in to the fund, the salesman or broker-agent is rewarded with the sweetest commission in the securities industry: an average of 8% to 8.5% of the total purchase price, compared with an average of 1.45% on trades in corporate stocks such...
...best, Private Parts is a smooth parody of hellhouse horror melodramas, with an unsparing musical score by Hugo Friedhofer that furnishes a crescendo every five bars. The cast, however-except for Lucille Benson, who is gruff and quite good-seems to consist mostly of rejects from Central Casting, and the villain (John Ventan-tonio) looks like someone who spends most of his time in the balcony of all-night movies...
...Crimson will compete in the Middlebury Carnival this weekend at Middlebury, Vt. The Carnival field will consist of the 11 teams in the EISA Division One and the top two teams from each of the other EISA divisions...
...right of the people of South Viet Nam to determine their own political future is specifically affirmed. A National Council for National Reconciliation and Concord is to be created by the two South Vietnamese parties to organize internationally supervised elections. It will consist of "three equal segments," indicating that neutralists will have a role. All of its decisions must be unanimous...
...body that is about ten times farther from the sun than the earth is, Sagan explains that Titan's atmosphere must be producing a significant "greenhouse effect"-that is, trapping more heat under its clouds than it radiates back into space. He speculates that those clouds may consist of rust-red organic compounds floating in a thick atmosphere of hydrogen, methane and ammonia coughed up by volcanic eruptions. Exposed to the sun's radiation, the gases could form into complex organic compounds, including sugars, purines and even amino acids. Such a mix of ingredients is akin...