Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year's varsity, which finished with a 5-8 record, was hampered by a lack of size. The team played only two home games, and several potential players were prevented from participating by both the time and cost of a heavy away schedule. "Traveling had to be done in private cars, and members had to pay for their own meals," Parks said. Considering the heavy financial pressure, the morale of this year's team was extremely high, Parks thought...
...have been appropriated for a Courtney Courtney Peabody memorial prize for scholarship to be awarded annually to the graduating senior considered "most fully endowed with those qualities best exemplified by Courtney Courtney Peabody '35." The gift of fifty dollars will be for books, no single volume of which may cost over ten cents...
...footnote to his latest study, Roethlisberger said that, beyond management's first goal of "immediate survival in the economic environment," business organization now "has come to a stage of its development when it starts to seek high-volume, low-cost business and to perform a service to society at the same time...
...have stepped up their buying of blue chips, the supply of stocks would have become so short that the price would have climbed far above the level that the public could afford. IBM would scarcely be widely held if it had not had many splits; one share today would cost more than $17,000. Thus, by seeking out new stockholders by splits, U.S. industry is making people's capitalism one of the major sources of strength in the U.S. economy...
...minded and devout Frenchman who is sparking a revolution in French food-selling practices. Leclerc, who started out by studying to be a Roman Catholic priest, changed his mind, and decided that he could help the poor more by donning a grocer's apron and bringing down the cost of living. Nine years ago, with $40, he opened a stall behind his house in Landerneau, near Brest, offering staple groceries only 8% above cost. Today some 30 Leclerc-sponsored groceries are operating in Brittany, Normandy and central France, and the movement is spreading over the nation. Recently, a rumor...