Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COLLEGE ALL-STAR FOOTBALL GAME (ABC, 9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.). The New York Jets meet the best of last season's collegiate seniors at Soldier Field in Chicago...
...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, and it is even pinching a number of big firms. As it scurried to raise new funds to meet New York Stock Exchange capital requirements, McDonnell & Co. went so far as to sell one of its three seats on the Big Board. The sale brought only $375,000, which represented a $140,000 drop in seat prices since April. Other Wall Street firms that have had capital difficulties include Nuveen...
...printed boxes running down the side of policy papers. Every executive involved must put his "chop" (mark) in a box, signifying his agreement, before any decision can be moved along. The next step is to present the decision to one of the "day clubs" of supposed competitors that meet regularly to shape policy for groups of companies. Consensus reached in one of these clubs must then be presented to the government, which supplies an average of 80% of the capital on which Japanese firms operate. It is also legal for industry associations to make the kind of decisions that...
...organizers of the referendum estimated that they bore the signatures of 9000 voters. By state law, each signer's name and address must be just as it appears on the voting lists, and it was anticipated that some of the 9000 signatures would be thrown out for failing to meet this requirement...
...course of Agnes Varda's Les Creatures, the hero and villain of the piece sit down beside a series of television screens and begin to play and odd sort of futuristic chess. The game's pieces represent characters in the village of the film. When two of them meet on the chess board, they meet in real life and are observed on the television screens. The villain has at his disposal a trap which, when it hovers over any one of the characters, permits him to play havoc with that character's emotions...