Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When all else failed, Makarios claimed a few weeks ago that Grivas was plotting to assassinate him. His "evidence" was a Grivas letter to a government official in Athens, warning that if Makarios stood firm on the National Guard issue, "I am ready to take action." Grivas scoffed at the accusation...
...cause little distress if the only function of the hormones was to preserve her monthly cycle of ovulation and menstruation-it would simply mark the end of her fertility period. But some of the hormones, especially the estrogens, fill many other biological needs. They help to keep the breasts firm and the skin supple and relatively wrinkle-free; they help keep down the level of fats in the blood and thus reduce the risk of heart attacks, and they help to keep the bones strong and hard. They have other metabolic effects as well, and some subtle influences...
...than 100 lawsuits had been filed against Chevrolet for Corvair's alleged deficiencies (to date, G.M. has won two such suits, lost one, and settled one out of court). Angered by Nader's charges, some General Motors executives decided to counterattack. The corporation retained a Washington law firm, which in turn paid out $6,700 to hire Vincent Gillen, a onetime FBI agent turned private detective with headquarters in Manhattan. Gillen sent his agents a frank letter about what they were supposed to try to accomplish. "Our job," he wrote, "is to check Nader's life...
...Bache & Co. Inc., which stands second in size ($90 million gross) to Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith ($227 million) among U.S.'s brokerage firms, desks are decorated with a motto of the house: "Learn to listen." The man that Bache's 5,000 employees are expected to listen to most intently is Chairman Harold L. Bache, 71, whose granduncle founded the firm 87 years ago. Last week, after Bache President Adrian C. ("Ace") Israel, 50, suddenly resigned because of "a basic disagreement over corporate policy," Wall Streeters were saying that the real reason was that Israel had found...
...money being pulled out suddenly after a partner's death. Bache had to weather such a crisis in 1944, when Jules S. Bache, Harold's uncle and at that time managing partner, died. Bache partners coughed up nearly $4,500,000 as heirs were paid off. The firm nearly went broke...