Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Three cheers for your excellent Essay on art today [Jan. 27]. I recently completed a course in modern art in hopes that I might gain some appreciation for the currently hailed art trends. However, I was completely disillusioned with the hodgepodge of junk that supposedly caters to the American taste. I can find beauty in the colors of Pollock, design in the geometric abstraction of Malevitch, and esthetic reasons for the distortions of Picasso; however, I can find no purpose in pop art or minimal art. Previously, I thought that I just wasn't with it; now I know...
...months ago, Grand has pulled Olin Mathieson's disparate operations together into five groups, expanded its operations in 70 countries. At the time he assumed power, he forecast that the corporation would exceed $1 billion in annual sales by 1967; last week Olin Mathieson reported a 19% gain in sales, to $1.1 billion...
adding that Britain and France have the challenging duty of leading a generation impatient of the mumblings bumblings and fumblings of what has too often passed for statesmanship." f we do fail to gain admission," Wilson warned, "the fault will not lie at Britain s door. History will condemn beyond any power of ours to defend or excuse, the failure to seize what so many of us can clearly see is now a swirling, urgent tide in man's affairs...
...Arab world and his restrictions on foreigners and the press. "Unless we change," cried their leader, Ahmad Khatib, a physician, "we will end up as the richest anachronism of the modern age." To no one's surprise, the government forces won 45 of the 50 seats, a gain of nine over their 1963 victory. Khatib himself, so say the government vote counters, was defeated...
...expand revenues. > Xerox also bounded to its 15th successive earnings record, with profits up 36%, to $80 million. Thanks to what Chairman Joseph C. Wilson called an "important reversal" in orders for its once slow-moving 2400 copier, earnings outraced increasing costs. Though the year-long gain was nothing like 1965's 47% leap, Wilson seemed almost embarrassed. Some time in the future, he warned, "our percentage rate of growth must, of course, diminish." - Kennecott Copper, one of the three biggest U.S. copper producers, turned a first-half slump resulting from strikes in Chile into a booming year with...