Word: glamourizer
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...problems worked well for a time, but now the nation is growing somewhat restive again. Although the President still seems unbeatable, the Democrats think they might magnify and capitalize on gathering discontent. Rather than rely on Muskie's safer and quieter persona, they gamble on Lindsay's glamour and appeal to the young...
...profit declines among the auto, oil, steel and chemical companies, but some businesses that had seemed almost impervious to economic slowdown also reported earnings declines. IBM, for example, showed the first quarterly earnings dip in ten years, causing a pronounced decline in the stock and general disenchantment with other "glamour" shares. Early reports leave little doubt that overall corporate pretax profits dipped from the third quarter to the last quarter of 1969, probably about 1% on a seasonally adjusted basis. Standard & Poor's forecasts a significant decline in the first quarter of 1970, and Chase Manhattan Bank expects...
...industrial average dropped 31 points, to 744, bringing the market to its lowest point since November 1963, just after President Kennedy was assassinated. The decline was democratic. Du Pont scraped a 15-year low. U.S. Steel traded at its 1954 level. Control Data and University Computing, among other recent glamour stocks, lost ten points or more each in a single trading session. The Dow-Jones has gone down 25% since December 1968 and 7% since 1970 began...
...follow in his famed father's footsteps, are headed for a punishing primary that only Democrats will enjoy. Despite allegations of misconduct leveled against him by LIFE magazine, Rhodes is no underdog to the stolid Taft. Democrats expect that in their primary, former Astronaut John Glenn's glamour will prevail over Cleveland Lawyer Howard Metzenbaum, a former state legislator. They hope that the internal Republican warfare will damage both Taft and Rhodes enough to offset the fact that Glenn has shown no out-of-this-world abilities as a politician. There is no clear favorite. TEXAS. Democratic Senator...
Today busses take horse players to Narragansett for winter racing. The quality of horses in Pawtucket has sagged gradually over the years, but the club-house still retains some of its old glamour. The rice pudding is excellent, and nothing can really match the clam chowder. A waiter in a white jacket with a towel over his arm shuffles over to your table, and from a shiny mug he pours the hot tangy broth into your bowl...