Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Interest. In London, Albert Loria, a senior partner in a banking firm, was fined ?3 for defacing an outdated ticket to avoid paying a threepenny subway fare...
...usual Communist technique, a crime has to be found to match the punishment, and Khrushchev may well blame the U.S.S.R.'s prime economic problem -low agricultural productivity -on the antiparty men, thus satisfying two desires at once. But the rest of the world was likely to center its interest in the Congress on the report that brash, quick-witted Anastas Mikoyan had brought back from his U.S. "vacation...
France quivered under the implications of the case, looked falteringly at the great interests, domestic and international, which might be affected by a misdirected or careless inheritance of the colossal Walter empire. And what of Dominique and the slippery Dr. Lacour? Both were vacationing at Marrakech in Morocco, 422 miles from the site of the great Zellidja mines. Everybody was talking at sixty to the minute. Jean Lacaze blamed Paulo, cried: "He is the shame of our family." Paulo Guillaume snapped irritably: "The billions don't interest me. What I want is to find my real mother." Preparing...
...thus stimulate new ones. For the guest stars there is a chance to reach TV mass audiences that no newspaper's circulation can match. For this opportunity, guests are willing to hold back choice news items -a practice that often arouses editors' ire but also stirs their interest, since Sunday is a dull news day, and Monday's papers are often starved for good stories. Says United Press International Washington Manager Lyle Wilson: "The public-relations business has always considered Monday morning the softest touch...
...yield an average 4.2% v. 3.3% for the Dow-Jones industrials. Rarely in the past 50 years have stocks yielded less than bonds for any length of time except in 1927-29, when the rising stock market kept stock yields under bonds for almost three years. With rising interest rates and the bull market, Wall Streeters see no early reversal in the spread...