Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...results turned out to be neither. The Socialists captured 41% of the 600,000 votes cast, a gain of nine points since the last Saar election five years ago, when they polled only 32%. It was less than they hoped for nonetheless. The C.D.U. picked up just enough new strength to remain on top with 43% of the votes cast. And though the Free Democrats won only 8.3%, losing nearly half their 1960 strength, their margin was sufficient to preserve the ruling coalition. Both major parties last week issued the same verdict: "An excellent starting basis for the federal elections...
Newport's social bastions still are the Spouting Rock Beach Association, which owns famed Bailey's Beach, and the Newport Reading Room, where men of the summer colony still gather in the afternoon for drinks, backgammon or boccie. To gain membership in any of these hallowed institutions is every bit as difficult as it was to be accepted in Newport back in the days when old John Jacob Astor remarked that "a man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich." In some ways it may be more difficult today; since many of Newport...
...When there's selling pressure, believe me, you really feel it on the floor." The market broke sharply and declined 12.46 at midweek, going through the previous week's low and causing brokers to brace for a weekend selloff. It never came. The averages vacillated between gain and loss at week's end as investors obviously tried to decide just what they wanted to do. Chartists who follow the complicated Dow theory of market prediction debated whether the market had given a bear signal by piercing last December's low of 857.45, but came...
...pension funds, but weigh almost as heavily in the market because they commonly put $4 out of every $5 into stocks. In the 100 most important funds, tremendous buy-or-sell power is wielded by small committees of managers, who think of potential loss before they think of potential gain and place one factor above all others: the quality of a company's management. The biggest funds-such as Investors' Mutual, Massachusetts Investors' Trust and the Wellington Fund-have a small turnover and aim to find stocks that they can profitably hold for six years or more...
...Washington the industry's marketing executives met to ponder why so many stay earthbound and to figure out new ways to tempt them into the air. The task is vital to the lines: for every additional 1% of the population that they succeed in attracting to flight, they gain $100 million in revenues. This year they are flying more people than ever before-and making more money than ever doing...