Word: grew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...office hits, Transamerica's stock has hung listlessly in the $13-$16 range. The U.A. executives saw the shares drop from a high of 40% in 1968, and Pleskow could not offer his subordinates contracts, bonuses or stock options. Consequently, he said, "as our success story grew, our top men became targets for other companies...
...either to buy or sell a "commodity futures contract" maturing at some given date in the future. Trading in U.S. commodity futures options has been banned in America since 1936, but dealers can offer options based on the London market. Carr's firm did this and prospered; it grew to employ 1,000 salesmen, and got the blessings of the Boston Better Business Bureau as well as a Dun & Bradstreet "triple A" credit rating...
Impelled, driven away from his desk and the study of a history he could no longer comprehend or even cared to, by a small spot that expanded, grew, shouldered against the facts he had stored in his brain; the constant pushing made sleep impossible, even when sleep was assisted by--or perhaps itself driven away--by several slugs from a bottle of cheap bourbon. A ring of light glowed in the east past the Charles, like the necklace of a dark lady, and that told him it was dawn or otherwise he might not have known because time, like history...
...drop? One reason, according to Department of Labor officials who prepared the report, is sim ply that the economy grew rapidly in 1977. Some 4.1 million people were added to civilian payrolls during the year, the largest number of Americans to find jobs in any year since World War II. But department officials also explained that the December drop in unemployment is not as big as it looks. Reason: the Government recalculated unemployment figures for all of 1977, using new data to adjust for seasonal fluctuations. The department now estimates that the jobless rate hit a high of 7.6% last...
...movie is an adaptation of a remarkable autobiography by Gavino Ledda, a poor Sardinian shepherd's son who grew up to become an accomplished linguist. Ledda, now in his mid-30s, spent his formative years in almost total isolation and ignorance. Yanked out of school at age six by his tyrannical father, he lived alone in the fields and tended his family's flock until he turned 20. Only when he escaped to the Italian army did he discover the pleasures of literacy, industrialized civilization and social intercourse. In Padre Padrone (English title: My Father, My Master...