Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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YOUR WERNETTE-POPEJOY ARTICLE FEB. 10 ISSUE DOES SERIOUS AND WHOLLY UNMERITED DAMAGE TO UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO. . . . THE FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY IN RESIDENCE IS UNANIMOUS IN EXPRESSING FULL CONFIDENCE IN PRESIDENT-ELECT POPEJOY AND THE FIRM BELIEF THAT PRESENT HIGH ACADEMIC STANDARDS WILL BE MAINTAINED UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP...
...Battle of the Fafiots. The general uproar was specifically addressed to Robert Schuman, a man who dislikes noise. Although he was almost a political unknown, he had to command France's respect. He had to take a firm line, although he presided over a coalition Cabinet that included Socialists and assorted centrists, as well as his own strongly Catholic M.R.P. Above all, as a convinced economic liberal, he wanted to end the system of government controls which has been stifling France since the war; but at the same time, he was forced to use repressive measures by current economic...
...world is open," T. H. Sanders, professor of Accounting at the Business School, told the conference. Success comes to the man who "shows the firm exactly what he can do for it," he declared, listing "creative capacity" as the most important quality for a would-be business...
...they could not unload it on the public without risking a loss. If the stock dropped lower, the underwriters stood to lose plenty. So Otis & Co. flabbergasted Wall Street by calling the whole deal off. No one could remember when an underwriter had ever done so before when a "firm commitment" had been made...
...Quickstep and been pronounced a genius by the Danbury (Conn.) Evening News. But after Yale, he decided that he couldn't make a living writing the kind of music he wanted to; he went into insurance and became highly successful (he is a retired partner in the Manhattan firm of Ives & Myrick). In his lunch hours and evenings, he composed...