Word: counting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little man does not count for much in the stock market any more. The "odd-lotters," as Wall Street refers to customers who deal in 99 shares or less in a transaction, represent only about 6% of an average day's trading on the New York Stock Exchange...
...committee has not kept an accurate count of how many students have left or are planning to leave. Bennett said, because "everything has happened too fast." The Boston group has been in existence only ten days, and as soon as a staff is formed it dissolves as its members leave for Israel, Bennett said...
...vote neared, Ford realized that he had no chance to win. The 50 or so Southern Democrats he could count on were nearly offset by about 35 Republican defectors. There followed some intricate maneuvering over whether the Democrats should force a roll-call vote -adding to the Republicans' distress-but the Democrats finally settled for an anonymous teller-vote victory over the Quie amendment...
Suspicion of Arson. By week's end 61 bodies had been recovered, many burned beyond identification. But the toll could reach more than 300, since 250 were still missing. It was, by any count, Brussels' worst fire and the most devastating one worldwide since 323 persons perished in a circus blaze in Brazil in 1961. Brussels Mayor Lucien Cooremans said that it would take a month or so to comb through the tangled debris, which still smoldered days later. Store officials estimated the property loss at $23 million...
Pillistics. For the racketeers, says Author Kreig, setting up a bootleg drug shop is a relatively simple matter. Machines to compress, count and package tablets can be bought secondhand from salvage companies that deal in equipment discarded by legitimate manufacturers. Small print shops will run off a few thousand imitation labels, with no questions asked. The counterfeiters hire chemists, some of whom are moonlighting while holding jobs with ethical manufacturers. They bribe technicians to steal punches and dies, and raw materials from the big companies. Much of their manufacturing is done at night in small plants that do an apparently...