Word: hit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reached the year's high of 969 in May. Last week it fell precipitously, closing at 818, lowest in 21 years. Many speculative stocks have been cut in half. The mutual funds are sitting on the sidelines, holding tremendous sums of cash and waiting for the market to hit a bottom. The slide has forced some brokers and bankers to make margin calls, and it is even pinching a number of big firms. As it scurried to raise new funds to meet New York Stock Exchange capital requirements, McDonnell & Co. went so far as to sell...
...jumbo jets may cut operating expenses about 25%. But before the money-saving giants start taking off, airmen expect damaging labor strikes. The first strikes will probably hit in early August and could force some cancellations of vacation flights. As much as 45% of an airline's operational expenses consists of labor costs. Every additional wage increase would cut closer to the quick. In the longer run, some mergers seem almost inevitable to reduce the problems of climbing costs and too much competition for too little traffic. If the U.S. can get by with only four auto manufacturers...
Claude (Claude Berri) is the little Jewish boy of The Two of Us grown to physical if not emotional maturity. His inamorata Isabelle (Elisabeth Wiener) is with child, but Claude is no hit-and-run villain. Wistful, tentative, he may be unsure of the proper words to say, but he knows enough to do the right thing...
...letter to the board of neighborhood residents which supervises model cities, Brigham said that "That program is now moving into a different phase--from planning to action--and the program's leadership should hit accordingly." The new director should have more executive and administrative experience, he said. Brigham's specialty is city planning...
...smidgen of narrative tension is supplied by a dissident passenger who knows what Sao Paolo holds and how their employers will treat them: "Your have to watch out for those gringoes ... they don't like paying money for nothing." He plans to give them the slip once they hit the city, or else "you're stuck for life." But at the film's close he too is trapped on the Hilton, and all we've learned from the story is that it's a long dusty drive from Recife to Sao Paolo...