Word: hoarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...describe Sol as "nice, thoughtful, helpful." He liked to talk about books and tend the garden; he played Chinese checkers with a couple of elderly neighbors, one of them a Jewish lady. Sol was no swinger, was rarely seen with girls. His brothers told police that Sol liked to hoard his money?perhaps explaining the $409 he had on him despite his being unemployed recently. He did well enough at John Muir High School to gain admission to Pasadena City College, but he dropped out. He wanted to be a jockey, but could qualify only as a "hot walker...
Treasured Footage. Almost every night in her sitting room, Lady Bird dutifully augments her husband's historical hoard by dictating her own Johnsoniana to what she calls a talking machine...
...rebounding "peace market" drew much of its surprising strength from heavy buying by institutions- he mutual funds, pension funds, speculative "hedge" funds, insurance companies and trusts that usually stay on the sidelines during Wall Street's emotional spasms. This time the funds scrambled to rein vest their record hoard of idle cash...
...elite. In France, most brokers do not even advertise-and the first one who does so aggressively may get on to quite a good thing. Still fearful of invasion and deflation, peasants tend to distrust securities, put their money in the mattress and their faith in gold, which they hoard and bury-a complete waste of capital. But proper marketing techniques can lure it out. Europe had hardly any mutual funds until an expatriate from Brooklyn, Bernie Cornfeld, started marketing them a dozen years ago. His Investors Overseas Services now raise more than...
...industry's automated furnaces, bottle users are either cutting back their own production or looking for other kinds of containers. Brewers, who use nearly 20% of the annual output of 30 billion containers, have stepped up the use of cans and are nursing a meager hoard of returnable bottles. "We've been rationing throwaways for weeks," said Pittsburgh Brewing Co. President Louis J. Slais, "and if this thing lasts a few more days, there won't be any more throwaways to throw away...