Word: footwork
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Share Perplexity. The board's most complex decision came as it struggled to divulge what Savoie calls "ersatz earnings"-per-share profits derived from fancy financial footwork. This is a sensitive matter because many investors mistakenly believe that they can gauge a stock's merit simply by checking per-share earnings. The board ruled that companies with a complicated mix of securities may no longer merely divide their net profits by the number of shares outstanding to arrive at per-share earnings. Instead, companies must reduce the net to allow for future conversion of all warrants and some...
...with a lively inventiveness and bounce it was never born with. Arthur French and David Downing are notable as a comic couple of end men in whiteface out to stage a "traditional American lynching" on a long-suffering black man (Julius Harris). There is some show-stopping (if irrelevant) footwork by a trio of pretty chicklets billed as Extraordinary Spooks. And Frances Foster has a delicious bit as a highfalutin Whitey lover who is afraid that a lynching will ruin her daughter's debut, which is slated to be "written up in the paper near the society page...
...elect has chosen to head the top Government departments. "The people will know more about their Cabinet than they've ever known before," bragged a Nixon staff member. Their debut was telecast live and in color from Washington's Shoreham Hotel, but not without some fancy logistical footwork: on short notice the Chemical Specialties Manufacturers Association, gathered in annual convention, agreed to relinquish the elegant Palladian Room, more than 100 other public and private rooms, and 14 suites for the President-elect and his entourage of aides and newsmen...
...wanted to make sure that they (the members of the U.S. team) would have done most of the mental footwork before they got to Mexico City so that they would have some idea where they stood if a demonstration did occur," Andy Larkin explained...
...second half began with Harvard knocking on the door again. Led by Robertson, who put on a dazzling show of footwork and passing, the Crimson nearly turned the game into a rout...