Word: fends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thieu government. The chance of success for the often repeated U.S. object in Viet Nam-to guarantee the South Vietnamese the right of self-determination, free from outside aggression-has vastly improved during the past year, because gradually an environment has been created in which the South Vietnamese can fend for themselves...
...Chrysler Corp., whose earnings plunged 51% last quarter, has deeply slashed its $300 million capital-spending plans for 1969. At New Stanton, Pa., construction of a $200 million assembly plant was halted even as the steel was going up. B. F. Goodrich, which is trying to fatten earnings and fend off a takeover attempt by Northwest Industries, plans to trim its 1969 spending. So does International Harvester, which has scrapped plans to expand its network of offices around the country...
...Soliciting. The all-out campaign paid valuable dividends for the established management. On Capitol Hill, Senator William Saxbe of Ohio rose to praise Goodrich's efforts to fend off "the predatory advance of a conglomerate." The Akron Beacon Journal likened Northwest to a "brash hussy trying to persuade our favorite uncle to elope." Forbes, a business biweekly, ran a long article that was so favorable to Goodrich that the company bought full-page newspaper space to reprint...
...prophetic accuracy to much of today's corporate enterprise. There are dozens of legal ways in which companies can juggle their books to inflate profits. The most common objectives are to camouflage a poor earnings performance, to help lift the price of common stock, and to promote-or fend off-mergers. Many conglomerate corporations owe their recent ascendancy at least in part to such practices. The trend has spread confusion among security analysts and investors; it has fired acrimonious debate among businessmen and accountants; it has provoked concern among regulatory authorities...
...open to him in his early years) to finicky discoveries about the minutest details (e.g., that the Sergeant Pepper concept of a album as an integrated whole "can be traced back to the end of Between the Buttons"). And, remarkably, these multifarious insights are not stranded and left to fend for themselves in a mass of prose but, in Williams' writings, are usually integrated into a solid conceptual framework, of the kind which is absolutely essential to good rock writing...