Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bank of America, Carnation, American Brands, General Foods and Owens-Illinois. The most notable boost was by American Telephone and Telegraph, which has more stockholders (2,923,000) than any other U.S. company. AT&T surprised Wall Street last month by raising its quarterly dividend on each share a dime to 950, double the increase that analysts had expected. A T & T's profits actually declined slightly from 1974 to 1975, but Chairman John D. deButts explained that the increased dividend "reflects the directors' confidence in the economy's continuing recovery and in our own business prospects...
Finch calls the Harris campaign a "nickel and dime operation." All organizers are unpaid, and they stay in the homes of Harris supporters while on the road...
...around Kinshasa's black market than ever before, and mercenary sources there insist the money is coming from the U.S. via Zaïre President Mobutu Sese Seko." Nonetheless, some greenhorn mercenaries who managed to make it back to Britain reported that they had yet to receive a dime...
...commonplace object, analyzes it in terms of texture, volume, form, etc., then manipulates the essence he has extracted. Using a process of free association, he fuses images, correlating aspects of the original object to other things or concepts. For example, a mitt, which he purchased in a Kresges dime store for 96 cents suggests to him a clam, or a landscape, a "sunrise set". Conversely, he sees the "mitt" form in a milkweed pod, in an ear, in a platter of fried eggs, of pie a la mode. The original mitt is also part of the ICA exhibit...
...indicate the existence of discrimination. With this kind of ammunition, one law student says, people are encouraged to file employment discrimination cases when they feel they have been treated unfairly. But the backlog of such agencies as the MCAD, with more than 2,000 cases behind and without a dime left to conduct costly public hearings and the EEOC, with a national backlog of 21,000 cases, does not suggest they will get very quick satisfaction...