Word: latterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tourist attraction. He has become an all-purpose critic in the U.S. and beyond, jousting with as many demons as a latter-day Vishnu, the many-armed Hindu god of a thousand names. To some, he is just an all-purpose bore. "The two necessities for 1968," says one detractor, "are the defeat of Lyndon Johnson and the massive putdown of John Kenneth Galbraith. It's difficult to see which would be the more difficult...
...climax of the referendum battle took place at the February 5 meeting of the Council. After elections for the semester were concluded and Munyon was installed as president, Parker proposed that a non-binding opinion poll be substituted for the anti-war referendum. The latter called for prompt withdrawal of American forces from Vietnam and would have been binding on the Council if approved. Parker's motion passed...
...individual investors, people who try to describe it often talk as if it has a character or personality of its own-which, in effect, it has. The market knows what it likes and what it doesn't like. It prefers higher taxes to tighter money, because the latter tends to draw funds out of stocks into higher-yielding, fixed-income investments-which is what happened late in 1966. When President Johnson-whose every major pronouncement causes the market to react, and often to overreact-called for a surtax early in 1967, he helped the market to spurt. Professionals figured...
...small investor, even more than the professional, tends to respond to that intangible, unpredictable but all-important factor: market psychology. When an up-or downtrend begins, market psychology often exaggerates it. In the latter half of 1966, when the market began to plunge, many investors sold out on the theory that things would get worse. Market averages dropped, and many glamour stocks were whacked in half. Within three months, after many small investors had sold out at the bottom, the market bounced back. Now much the same thing appears to be happening again. Stocks have dropped about 4% on average...
...eighteenth century English gentlemen" who thought of themselves as engaged in a more or less orderly "transfer of power," with the presidency being merely the "lineal descendant of the colonial office of governor." In fact, Heren likes the institution of the U.S. presidency because it reminds him of "a latter-day version of a British medieval monarchy," with the Congress cast as the barons and the Supreme Court filling the role of the church. He even goes so far as to suggest that consensus is the contemporary U.S. version of the divine right of kings, and he calls presidential staff...