Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a showing at Washington's Shoreham Hotel, A.M.C. gets a modest jump on the Big Three, who will not begin unwrapping their new wheels until later this month. Why the rush? Maybe because A.M.C. has a lot to show this year. "We've got a whole line of cars to sell now," says A.M.C. President William V. Luneburg. "This company will never again be known as a one-product outfit...
...Robert W. Haack estimated that the plan would cut U.S. brokers' total commissions about $150 million annually, or 7% of the $2.1 billion they took in last year from exchange trading. As of now, the same rates (varying with the price of the security) apply to each round lot of 100 shares, no matter how large the total trade. Thus the commission for buying or selling 100 shares of stock priced at $50 is $44-and for 10,000 shares at $50 it is $4,400. Under the complex N.Y.S.E. proposal, the fee for a 10,000-share trade...
...arrive. Lately, a reaction to much of this gadgetry has set in, and there has been a return to simpler sounds. Dylan, who started it all, moved steadily into the furious closeness of Blond on Blond, and then stepped back to the calm of John Wesley Harding. A lot of the hard, driving rock went out of the music, but it left some shiny modernity, enriching the old folk and creating a new style...
...Pink sound has rock drums and a bouncy organ, but there's a lot of lyrical piano, and the voice is all folk, sometimes gospel sing-along...
...origin is simple, he feels: "the Ibos were right to secede. They're smart, the smartest in Africa, they have all the doctors and lawyers." Though the origin of the war is tribal, its continuation may be due to intervention, he says, noting that "there's a lot of oil under Biafra," and that the oil might have something to do with English support for the Nigerians, and the French money and mercenaries aiding Biafra...