Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...series about a young bride who has one funny problem -she can read people's minds. The woman with something extra will be Sally Field, who a few seasons ago was a flying nun in an ABC comedy. It is easier, it seems, to kick the habit than dump inane scriptwriters...
...situation has alarmed not only brokers but the heads of many companies whose shares are traded on stock exchanges. They fear that if trading is totally dominated by institutions the market will become erratic; for example, if several institutions decide to dump a stock at the same time, its price will plummet even though the company may be doing well. Heads of 250 corporations that are listed on the American Stock Exchange have now formed a Committee of Publicly Owned Companies that, among other things, will lobby against any further increase in commissions for individual investors or any further cuts...
Oregon's new law has also brought woes to retail and wholesale outlets. Managers lack sufficient storage space and say costs of sorting the empties are mounting. Instead of returning the old bottles and cans to beverage companies, many storeowners send their empties directly to the dump...
...standing in the crooked doorway, ragged and dusty as the dirt road wandering before her. Who lived here? She knew she must only be on a visit; but whose clothes were these, and what was she doing in them? What was she doing here, in nowheresville, in this ragged dump anyway...
...Appice. Word is that these two guys played a Coke commercial with Beck in '69 and they all freaked each other out, at least musically. Nobody knows though, since I've never heard the commercial and don't know anybody who has. The plan was for Beck to dump Stewart et al., and throw in with these guys, who didn't have much going at the time. Never happened because Jeff wrapped his Corvette around a tree in the midlands somewhere and didn't play a note for like two years. By the time he resurfaced, they were trapped...