Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...profit monitoring group will review each corporation's semi-annual report, examine reports from research institutions, work with other groups monitoring the activities of corporations in South Africa, and send staff members to South Africa to investigate the corporate practices first-hand, Ylvisaker added...
...along with the President's choices. But he balked when it came to the more numerous federal district judges. Instead of a Mississippi commission coming up with five names for a judgeship and the President choosing one, Eastland reportedly told Attorney General Griffin Bell: "I'll hand you a slip of paper with one name on it, and that'll be the judge...
...other hand, Borg-Warner seems to be getting a bargain. In a complicated exchange of stock, it would pay about $15 a share for Firestone. That is some $2 above the market price before the offer but far less than last year's $24 high and well below Firestone's book value of about $25 a share, or $1.5 billion. Aside from collecting assets cheaply, Borg-Warner would be buying 1) protection from a possible unwelcome bidder for its own company, 2) a sizable paper loss from the 500-series recall that could be used to reduce future...
...season when department-store cosmetics counters are jammed and the air redolent of thousands of mixed scents as women spray themselves with a bit of this and a touch of that. Men's eyes are often struck by the sight of a woman daubing lipstick onto her hand to get a better idea of the shade?and leaving five or six stripes of what looks like war paint...
...resort town of Biarritz, the son of a chief of the local gas and electric company, Bergerac studied economics and political science at the Sorbonne and Cambridge. He came to the U.S. at 21, earned an M.B.A. from U.C.L.A., and for one six-month period worked as a ranch hand roping horses in Oregon. He joined Cannon Electric Co. of Los Angeles as a salesman, and in three years worked up to international vice president. Meanwhile, he became a U.S. citizen and married Norma Langstaff, a Los Angeles abstract painter who has had several art shows. In 1963, ITT acquired...