Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both questions, in the view of many at the Law School, are very difficult to answer conclusively. Dean Griswold said, for example, that it is "hard to tell [whether a firm is discriminating] as a matter of fact -- especially in the case of smaller firms...
...Head Start projects. I don't think that we can postpone what we are doing in the cities." Nevertheless, non-defense programs are in for what an Administration aide calls a "tough year." Said he: "We will move ahead on the major social programs, but it will mean firm, steady steps ahead-no wild expansion." Health, education and welfare activities are ticketed for an additional $1 billion, including $135 million for extension of Head Start, another $135 million for additional manpower training programs, plus added funds for the just-launched Demonstration Cities program...
...brokers pressed around the mahogany rail circling a sunken trading pit as a bell rang promptly at 9:50 a.m. "March," intoned the exchange's trading superintendent, Patrick J. White, from his elevated perch at the edge of the ring. "Ninety," shouted Herbert Coyne of the commodity firm of Rayner & Stonington Inc. "Sold," cried Robert Marcus of Imperial Commodities Corp. A beige-jacketed clerk chalked the figure on a blackboard...
...family-controlled Rootes firm, harried by labor troubles, lost $8.4 million in the fiscal year that ended July 31, and estimates are for an additional deficit of $13.3 million in the first six months of the current fiscal year. Moreover, ambitious expansion plans make a major infusion of new money absolutely mandatory. About the only alternative to the Chrysler acquisition was one by government itself-and the Labor ministers wanted no part of that. "The takeover of Rootes by the British government," Mr. Wedgwood Benn explained, "would have involved massive sums of public money without any guarantee that Rootes would...
Underlying Waves. No glamour boy on the podium, Davis guided the Met orchestra through Britten's surging score with the firm and unerring hand of a ship's captain riding out a sou'wester. His precise baton gave full play to the music's quick, dramatic climaxes, while deftly sustaining the rhythms of wind and waves. His beat was decisive, his attack well balanced and logical...