Word: lose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because the best shows are pitted against one another, we viewers switch stations frantically during the commercials. Soon the advertisers will realize this, and TV will lose its revenue...
...electrical, rubber and auto workers-may moderate their demands. But should the Teamsters gravely breach the guides, 3.3 million other union members whose contracts expire this year will probably feel free to go for broke. As one of the Administration's inflation fighters put it: "If we lose master freight, we can forget about Stage...
...perplexed American investor to park his extra cash and protect its value? Certainly not in a savings account. Had Phineas T. Barnum lived today, his famous dictum might well have been: There's a saver born every minute. In the inflationary 1970s, savers are suckers who stand to lose. If inflation should continue at February's 15.4% rate, every dollar put into a bank at 5¼% interest will become 91.4? in real money a year from now-and a lot less than that after taxes are paid on the interest...
Counsels Cummings: "If the investor goes to a good dealer, doesn't look for bargains, buys good pictures and pays a proper price, I don't think he can lose." Cummings also buys stocks of companies but pays more attention to the quality of their managers than the size of their immediate profits. In both the stock market and the art market, he has a philosophy of buy and hold. Once he acquires shares, he hangs on because he believes that sound management will overcome the vicissitudes of the economy...
...iridescences of Vladimir Nabokov, modern master of the technique, but he moves from one story to the other without draining color from either. One reason is Giles' ability to regard himself as a character. His comments when both he and his fictional doppelgänger love and lose: "He had been able to contemplate the story of Gus Howkins ... precisely because that story had been his companion through all the recent events in his life. It had gone along with him, step by step, providing an alternative existence that had strangely held to the same contours as his actual...