Word: fends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find the patient a job or to bring him to the point where he's ready for a job. The theory is that a patient must have a job to survive in the outside world; he must avoid becoming too dependent on the students, and he must learn to fend for himself. Mrs. Carmel says that the most sensitive problem is matching the person to the right job. Some residents are afraid to exercise their full potentiality, taking a dishwasher's position when they are suited to a responsible and creative job, while others develop impossible aspirations from associating with...
...many lessons which must be drawn from an analysis of the recent conflict in the Middle East is that many of the smaller countries in the hot spots around the world will be increasingly left to fend for themselves when the Big Powers line up on either side of an issue. Although the battels may be fought with weapons supplied by the Super-nations, the ultimate outcome of the struggle will depend on the success or failure of the smaller countries involved in a limited...
...nation's most prestigious economic voices last week prescribed the same course-for widely differing reasons. Gardner Ackley, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and William McChesney Martin, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, renewed the call for a tax increase to fend off inflation...
Considering its position as the world's largest producer of metal containers, American Can Co. remains understandably red-faced over its abortive 1929 attempt to set up shop in Britain. That year the company established a British subsidiary-only to meet with an unexpected fate. Joining forces to fend off the challenger, British container companies merged into what came to be known as Metal Box Co. Ltd. and enlisted the technical assistance of American Can's chief U.S. rival, Continental Can Co. The combination proved so powerful that American Can, badly beaten, sold its local operations to Metal...
...takeover bid by Bucyrus-Erie Co. not long ago by writing and telephoning some 3,000 stockholders, joining a hastily formed committee of Racine citizens in buying up its own shares in the market. Sharon Steel Corp. boosted its annual dividend from 60? to 80? a share to help fend off a tender offer by Honolulu Industrialist George W. Murphy. Julius Garfinckel & Co., the Washington-based retail chain that controls Manhattan's Brooks Bros., last year rebuffed a tender takeover attempt by Genesco, Maxey Jarman's shoe-and-clothing combine, after two court fights and a bitter exchange...