Word: holdings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ever (35 points) during the initial euphoria over the dollar-rescue program, fell back heavily; last Tuesday the Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 14.81 points. At week's end it was moving in a narrow range just above 800, but nobody could be sure it would hold there. Some brokers fear that a combination of high interest rates and the threat (or fact) of recession could push the average down to the low 700s...
...next big test of Carter's determination to keep up the anti-inflation campaign despite the troubles it is bound to cause will be how much he can hold down federal spending and stem the flow of budgetary red ink. In January the Administration will send Congress proposals for small cuts designed to knock as much as $3 billion off the $39 billion deficit now forecast for fiscal 1979, which started Oct. 1. Over the weekend, as an earnest of his anti-inflationary intentions, Carter vetoed bills that in effect would have limited imports of low-priced beef and textiles...
Hershey insisted that it had not busted the guidelines, which call for firms to hold price boosts half a point below the average of the increases they posted in 1976 and 1977. With Hershey, comparisons are tough because the size of its bars has changed. The company is now raising the price of its basic milk-chocolate bar from 20? to 25?, but also increasing the weight of each bar by 14%, so that the price increase on each launchable ounce is 9.3%. That, says Hershey, compares with three price boosts per ounce of bar weight of, respectively...
There are now more than 1,000 professional ensembles in America. Some 200 cities hold chamber-music series. Colleges want to have groups as residents on campus. "The young seem turned off by spectaculars," says Cellist Paul Katz of the Cleveland Quartet, which is based at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester. Members of the Chicago Symphony alone have formed 15 chamber ensembles...
...hunted pair will deploy a lethal list of weapons that include camera-fired fléchettes, boomslang venom, plastique-packed tea bags, flame-throwing hair dryers, nerve gas and atomic tennis balls. Nor can they figure who or what is the ubiquitous Chalice, or whether the Mancneff partnership can hold up. As for the Irvholz team, its novel is clever, cynical and compelling...