Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economics, he seemed to be implying, was mostly some loose wires in Congress. Johnson asserted that "damage has already been done" by congressional failure to enact the tax surcharge. "In the next few weeks," he added, "we must demonstrate that we can raise as well as lower taxes...
...total is only half that?and some observers think that that may be the case when all the combat reports filed in the swirl of battle are cross-checked?it would still represent a huge bloodletting of the enemy's forces in South Viet Nam. Even the lower estimates leave no doubt about who won the actual battles: U.S. dead numbered 367 and South Vietnamese military dead about...
...company that has few shares outstanding, induces his customers to buy the stock, and puts only 5% ($1,000,000) of his buying power into it, the demand is likely to drive the stock up simply because its supply is so limited. Many brokers tend to favor lower-priced issues because they carry higher commissions. Quite a few also like to find a "hot" industry and then recommend one of the most depressed companies in the field. Explains one top broker: "In a good industry, with profits going up quarter by quarter, even the garbage is going to go through...
...swings in a single industry. But conglomerates can have slumps of their own. Litton Industries, a pioneer that chalked up an impressive round of sales and earnings records during fiscal 1967, has announced that its latest quarterly profits (for the three-month period ending Jan. 31) will be "substantially lower" than expected. Much of the blame was laid on management "deficiencies," and Litton said that the problem has now been corrected...
...twenty Ecuadorian PCV's if anyone listened to their recommendations; ask Paul Cowan if the former Peace Corps view on the expression of opinion on public issues was modified as a result of articulate Volunteer ideas; ask nine former Volunteers who now direct country programs if, like some lower form of life, they are unable to learn from their experience...