Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...handful considered prospective employers hostile toward ex-priests; others found them skeptical. But one-third regarded the business community as aware of former priests' potential as jobholders; another third called businessmen merely curious. Half got their jobs by personally contacting businessmen; only one in five used employment agencies or private placement bureaus. The Gallagher Report calls former priests an "untapped manpower resource" with "stability and brain power." Seven out of ten, it adds, are happy with their new careers...
...National General, voting itself the fat dividend looked like a smart move. The company waged a bitter proxy fight to get its 75%, and has offered to buy the remaining 25% at $45 per share. Before the offer was made, the stock had been selling for about half that amount. Great American certainly looked ripe for plucking. It had been losing money on insurance for at least a decade, mainly because it concentrated on personal fire and casualty policies, a competitive area plagued by rising losses. Like many other hard-pressed insurance concerns, Great American concentrated on making profits...
Klein obviously has in mind using at least part of his dividend to finance some new mergers and acquisitions. Even with its surplus cut in half, Great American has more than the industrywide average of loss reserves in relation to its underwriting volume. "We did no milking," Klein insists. "We are staying in the insurance business. We paid about $500 million for the company, so obviously we aren't going to hurt ourselves. What many businessmen fail to keep in mind is that the proper utilization of capital is the cornerstone of U.S. industry." That, of course...
That record is certainly an improvement over 50 years ago, when industrial accidents killed nearly twice as many people in a work force half the size of today's. Still, the push for occupational safety appears to have weakened in recent years. The number of deaths has stayed nearly the same since 1963, while disabling injuries have actually been on the increase. A number of other industrial nations pay more attention to safety and have better records to show for it. British fatalities in manufacturing run only half as high per man-hour as those...
Frankly Wicked. In the past, some directors have coped with Shakespearean plays by cutting the text. Sir Laurence Olivier's unforgettable 1946 film of Henry V included only half the original; Franco Zeffirelli's recent Romeo and Juliet cut more than half. To Director Hall, 38; the best solution was to leave Shakespeare's words alone. Since A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the bard's shortest plays, he cut only ten lines...