Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wall Street has a new bull. On the over-the-counter market, home of all the stocks not listed on regular exchanges, a new high was recorded last week for the third week in a row. Prices of unlisted industrial stocks rose to the highest point since the National Quotation Bureau began keeping figures in 1948. To the nation's 4,000 dealers in unlisted stocks, the rise was a cheering signal that investors are moving in force into the world's largest securities market, where prices are quoted daily on more than 5,000 stocks, more than...
Risks & Rewards. The rising popularity of unlisted stocks (one in every three U.S. stockholders now owns at least one) is the more remarkable because the over-the-counter market has no central marketplace such as that of the New York Stock Exchange, permits no margin buying (although stocks can be pledged for bank loans much as they are pledged for margin). Over-the-counter stocks were long considered a risky no-man's-land for the amateur investor. But many investors have decided that the rewards are worth the risks...
...their leaders, a former captain in his army. When that failed, 10,000 militia attacked and were driven off. In Havana, Castro wasted no time in persuasion; his revolutionary tribunals held 13 trials in five days, cranked out prison terms of nine to 30 years for 77 "counter-revolutionaries," death for nine more...
...fight against Castro is also getting tougher. The break in diplomatic relations, plus the U.S. decision last week to shut off all travel to Cuba, makes it harder to shunt agents back and forth. Castro's decree of the death penalty for all counter-revolutionary activities-including mere possession of a bottle of gasoline (in Castro's lexicon, that equals one Molotov cocktail)-"is having a great effect," says a Frente leader. "Underground work is much harder now. People are no longer willing to hide revolutionaries because it means death...
...Administration must recognize that the positive way to deal with the pressures in Southern society for segregation is to develop pressures in the other direction. Housing Commissioner Weaver's plan for urban renewal, partially geared toward the development of integrated communities, presents an excellent method of providing forces to counter, in a positive way, the social forces driving Southerners toward discrimination...