Word: guess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...branch offices and fired 350 employees. Hayden Stone Inc. and Shearson, Hammill are preparing for a merger by Labor Day; reports are circulating on the Street that as many as 1,000 employees will be laid off. Perhaps 100 other firms are talking merger, and the best guess as to how many more Big Board brokerages will merge or liquidate by the end of the year...
Brock also takes some educated guesses before he runs. Because curve balls take a fraction of a second longer to reach the catcher than fast balls, Brock prefers to run when he thinks a curve is coming. He figures the odds by studying the habits of catchers and attempting to guess when they will call for breaking pitches...
...graduated from Harvard Law School last month, is a songwriter, director, and sometime actor. He doesn't plan to practice law; he's headed for Broadway. Asked why he endured the rigors of law school, Rubins says, "I met a lot of lawyers who were nice people. I guess that like most people around here, I was pushed to feel that an A.B. was not enough. And besides, I wanted to stay in Cambridge; it was another three years away from the outside world...
Rubins, however, is not entirely satisfied: "'Suffragette' was about everything George and I believed. I guess that's why we tried so hard. The fact that it wasn't the greatest hit ever was a let-down." According to Rubins, "Suffragette" is about "fanaticism, the choice that people have to make between 'I'm going to have a wonderful personal life' and 'I'm going to achieve something...
...rational motive," he declared. But Ervin hinted that Petersen might have found the case easier to understand if he had not been so intent on serving the President. Petersen remarked: "If you mean we accepted the lies of all those people who lied to us, I guess we did. You know, sir, we were snookered...