Word: margin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...childhood's end. Sarafian-a former TV director-has an eye for the feeling and texture of inanimate as well as living things. When the colonel searches a birdwatcher's guide for an entry, the book assumes an identity of its own; notes are scribbled in the margin, the pages are dirty and soiled, odd cards and scraps of paper are stuck between pages to mark essential passages. The characters, down to the most briefly glimpsed villager, are delineated with equal finesse. Perhaps what is finally so attractive about Run Free is this quality of care that bespeaks...
Brown said, "There are only two ways to keep to Coop profitable enough to continue paying rebates. Either we get the margin [of prices] up or the expenses down. If we get the margin up, people will cut our throats because prices are higher. If we get expenses down, we have to cut services...
...simplest policy decisions now meet extensive delays. For example, a regulation that would apply the requirements of the Truth in Lending Act to margin loans has been debated since May without a decision, and no final action has been taken on a proposed rule regarding corporate names. Under the rule, a company's registration statement to sell stock would be deemed misleading if the company's name contained such words as "missile" or "space" but the firm did no work in those fields...
...Margin Calls. Inflation usually stimulates the stock market, but Washington's anti-inflationary moves are now badly hurting shareholders. The Dow-Jones industrial average has dropped more than 150 points since it reached the year's high of 969 in May. Last week it fell precipitously, closing at 818, lowest in 21 years. Many speculative stocks have been cut in half. The mutual funds are sitting on the sidelines, holding tremendous sums of cash and waiting for the market to hit a bottom. The slide has forced some brokers and bankers to make margin calls...
...Rockingham Park field. This Saturday Coup Landing faces another lackluster array of local talent with the exception of the Eddie Anspach trained Red's Copy who would show a touch of class in beating his horse--and Coup Landing will be favored to win again, if by a smaller margin...