Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Haack, president of the New York Stock Exchange, speaks proudly of the Big Board's "preeminent position in the securities industry." Then he utters what his predecessors would surely have deemed blasphemy-the thought that this dominance is not part of the order of nature but could be lost if the exchange does not adapt itself to "a totally new set of conditions." Largely because it has so far been highly resistant to just such a basic change, the Big Board is in trouble today...
...firms in order to join a small company. The pay might be somewhat more modest there, but the responsibility is larger and the promotions potentially faster. Nobody in the group accepted the highest bidder, and few were interested in general training programs that are easy to get lost in. These students will not have to work their way painfully up through the ranks; they begin fairly close to the top. Many of today's business students have been in the armed forces, have started their own businesses on campus, and have worked as part-time corporate consultants while going...
Quota System. Even so, Congress has not been persuaded that exploration would be discouraged by a reduction in the depletion allowance. On Capitol Hill, the feeling is growing that the allowances, which cost the Government about $1 billion a year in lost taxes, are indefensible from the viewpoint of tax equity. Partly because of its tax privileges, the oil industry has fairly high profits. Oil companies earn an average of 11.2% on their invested capital, which is slightly above the norm for all U.S. industry; they also earn 10% on sales, which is about double the figure for other...
...company admits that it lost "several million" dollars in 1968. The Dodge Dart, priced at $3,400 in Spain, proved much too expensive and ostentatious even for government leaders. Last year, sales of Darts slipped to only 1,598, and Simcas to 31,106, out of a total Spanish car production of more than 300,000. To help the company get back on its feet, Chrysler planned another $30 million stock offering, which would have further reduced Barreiros' share of ownership. That, most likely, was what prompted Barreiros and his brothers to resign, though they still retain about...
James had come through. Simultaneously toughened and mellowed by his ordeal, he was ready for what devoted Jacobins agree was his major phase: The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, The Golden Bowl. He had managed that extremely difficult feat: he had lost innocence without losing integrity. "The most beautiful word in the language?" James asked himself. In his notebooks he answered: "Youth!" With his life he answered: "Maturity...