Word: dows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...areas with fine art. In the decade since the program's inception, the bank has spent $800,000 for 1,500 paintings, sculptures and graphics by 500 artists. The collection's net value has appreciated to $1,500,000 -a 60% increase that compares favorably with the Dow Jones industrial average...
Last year, I wrote a highly irresponsible piece on the editorial page called "The Sit-Ins Work." The piece pointed out that the remarkable thing about students actions against Dow and the Army and things was successful--the students almost always won their demands. That is what happened at Harvard this April. The sit-in worked. I think I understand better now why it worked. It worked because the people in charge thought that what it was about was obviously important--since action in our society is so rare, and since everything has its reason. The sit-in worked...
...reason for being: covering financial news. This may include intriguing stories about corporate competition and executive politics. More often, however, it involves checking out public relations handouts, tabulating financial statements and reporting boring board meetings. Journal reporters handle such items not only for the paper but also for its Dow Jones financial-news wire, which is facing serious competition for the first time. A similar wire opened last year by Reuters claims some 600 clients...
...teen-ager used to be that nice adolescent next door, witness Sheila James in the Stu Erwin Show, Billy Gray in Father Knows Best, and Tony Dow in Leave It to Beaver. The neo-Penrod type was stereotyped by Ricky Nelson, who grew into and out of adolescence before the entire nation on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet...
...francs and West German marks. Speculators and traders outside France were betting, in effect, on devaluation; they were agreeing to buy francs for future delivery only at discounts of up to 27%. The jitters spread to the British pound, which also weakened on currency exchanges. On Wall Street, the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped twelve points in two days, closing the week...