Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost as heavily in the market because they commonly put $4 out of every $5 into stocks. In the 100 most important funds, tremendous buy-or-sell power is wielded by small committees of managers, who think of potential loss before they think of potential gain and place one factor above all others: the quality of a company's management. The biggest funds-such as Investors' Mutual, Massachusetts Investors' Trust and the Wellington Fund-have a small turnover and aim to find stocks that they can profitably hold for six years or more...
Incalculable Impact. The case at issue involved none other than the 1962 swindling conviction of Billie Sol Estes, whose trial in a Texas state court was televised over his objections. Justice Tom Clark, reversing Estes' conviction,* declared that TV smuggles an "irrelevant factor" into the courtroom that may poison the atmosphere of the trial and therefore denies the defendant's right to due process of law under the 14th Amendment. Among points he cited...
...chances for a record-shattering time in the varsity heavies look fairly dim. For one thing, the 1948 race was rowed with a favorable tide and a substantial tailwind. This year's wind direction is an unknown factor and local fishermen are looking for a slack tide. So, unless the Crimson gets a strong north wind at their backs, there won't be a new record. In any case, Harvard should win and be on their way to Henley and Lucerne by this time next week...
...avoid the danger of clotting, the surgeons injected the anticoagulant heparin into the plastic tube leading blood away from the patient. But before it got back into the patient, where the clotting factor was necessary once more, the doctors gave it another injection, this time of protamine, to counteract the heparin...
SAINT NORBERT COLLEGE The late C. Leo De Orsey, LL.D., tax attorney. Even a partial list of his clients is testimony to his success: Charles Wilson, General Omar Bradley, Edward R. Murrow, Arthur Godfrey, George Preston Marshall, General Curtis LeMay, Ted Williams, Max Factor...