Word: generalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Australian pride was finally served. In a ceremony that was televised by satellite to audiences in Manhattan, Tokyo and London, as well as all over Australia, Governor General Sir Paul Hasluck officially opened...
...After World War I naval service, he turned to sportswriting, first for United Press, then for the Chicago Tribune. His flair for words made him a success. By 1929, he was earning $25,000 a year. In 1933, Scripps-Howard enticed him to write a more general column, and a dozen years later he shifted to Hearst's King Features Syndicate, where his income soon reached an estimated $90,000 a year...
...month before I take out the trumpet and start to blow it," said William Butler, vice president of the Chase Manhattan Bank. His caution was echoed by other business and Government economists. The leading indicators, however, reveal a significant slowdown in construction, commitments for new plant and equipment and general investment activity. Retail sales have flattened in recent months, and the actual volume of sales-discounting inflation-has not risen at all over the past year. The evidence suggests that consumer demand, which has been partially responsible for inflation, is moderating. And no wonder. The U.S. is currently...
Retailers can continue to advertise credit in general wording ("Ask About Our E-Z Payments Plan"), but if an ad men tions even one specific term it must go on to list all others. That could embarrass ghetto storekeepers, many of whom lure the poor into expensive installment contracts by trumpeting "No Money Down - Years...
...Attorney General John Mitchell has gone much farther than any of his pre decessors toward promoting the proposition that bigness in business is intrinsically bad. In June he warned that the Government "may very well" chal lenge any merger between two of the largest 200 U.S. companies. Last week Mitchell proved to be as good as his word. His trustbusters announced that they will file suit to block the planned merger of Harold Geneen's International Telephone & Telegraph, the biggest and one of the best-managed conglomerates, with Hartford Fire Insurance Co. The merger would rank among the largest...