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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...struggled to divulge what Savoie calls "ersatz earnings"-per-share profits derived from fancy financial footwork. This is a sensitive matter because many investors mistakenly believe that they can gauge a stock's merit simply by checking per-share earnings. The board ruled that companies with a complicated mix of securities may no longer merely divide their net profits by the number of shares outstanding to arrive at per-share earnings. Instead, companies must reduce the net to allow for future conversion of all warrants and some (but not all) convertible debentures and convertible preferred shares. Many businessmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: COOKING THE BOOKS TO FATTEN PROFITS | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

Whether the present mix of fiscal and monetary policies will bring the "gradual" economic slowdown that the Administration wants should be known in a few months. Most taxpayers will be painfully reminded in mid-April that not all of last year's 10% income tax surcharge was covered by their withholding taxes. The federal budget will soon shift to a slight surplus after three years of inflationary deficits. At this point, top Administration officials figure that present measures will begin to bring inflation under control-perhaps without another dose of higher interest rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: INFLATIONITIS: A PROBLEM OF PSYCHOLOGY | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...graduate students. Members of Dudley House, students in the University Extension Program, Radcliffe students and officers of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences were the group for which priorities were established in the financing of and the planning for Lehman Hall. The problem now is not one of mix--graduate students are valuable and cherished users of the dining hall. The problem not is one of scale: there are simply too many people trying to occupy the room between the hours from eleven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CROOK CORRECTS | 3/18/1969 | See Source »

Nathan was aglow. He had just recently decided to get out in the streets and mix with "real" humanity. Right off the bat he gets an honest, seemingly intelligent, vicarious queer. He respected Scott...

Author: By William L. Ripley, | Title: Choosing Fruit | 3/17/1969 | See Source »

...even had an American interval: five years in Connecticut during which he shared a barber with James Thurber. "How lucky you are not to have literary cafés in America," Simenon said last week. "In France, they think I'm a barbarian because I don't mix with other writers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Happy 200th to Simenon | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

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