Word: item
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...different view of his own abilities. In 1961, he engineered a "palace revolution." Though he controlled only 42% of the paper's stock, he quietly signed up other rebels, including the paper's ambitious editor George Chaplin, who had been hired from the New Orleans Item largely because he had written more than 50 editorials urging Hawaiian statehood. With just a fraction of a percentage point over 50% of the stock then at his command, Twigg-Smith confronted his uncle and advised him to step down. A dumbstruck Lorrin P. Thurston took his nephew to court...
...Again. Nonetheless, the credit squeeze has reached such proportions that it is itself becoming a major economic problem. It has hit hard at the housing industry, now in its worst slump in several years, at the small businessman and at the average consumer, who is paying more for every item he buys on time. Interest rates on personal loans and auto payments are running as high as 12% a year, and even some big corporations are paying 10% for 10-year money. In many places it now costs home buyers $12 a month more than last year to float...
Reviving the Spark. "I am not interested in theory or history in collecting, but only in how the item can help me in my performance," Lateiner explains. No pedant, he uses research to "get under the composer's skin" and revive the spark and freshness of the creative impulse behind the music, "to re-create a piece at each time, on each plane, as if it had never been played before...
...current profits to pay its way out of three Taylor ventures in one stroke. Thus, instead of reporting record profits of $1,473,607 for the first half of 1966, which is what the books showed before the adjustment, the company reported a loss of $216,091. The biggest item was to provide a reserve for Taylor's entire investment of $1,142,902 in acquiring 85% of Holland's West-Friesland Eurotransport, Inc. West-Friesland is losing money-as Taylor predicted it would for at least five years. The other adjustments involved the bankrupt Yale Express System...
...model autos, only the Mustang is still on the production line-and Ford would just love to keep that hot little item going forever. As for the rest, 1967s are now being phased in, and Detroit is breathing a huge, collective sigh of relief...