Word: net
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...varieties-fleeing South Africa. Understandably, the South African government is not hastening to publish relevant statistics, but there is an officially admitted need for 4,000 additional doctors by 1965; balancing off 1960's new crop of physicians against the doctors who emigrated, the year's net gain was a mere 151. Vacated faculty jobs at South African universities go begging (19 at important Natal University alone), and the reasons for the discrepancy between supply and demand are widely understood. Says Jacobus Petrus Duminy, Vice Chancellor of Cape Town University: "It's as though [the educators...
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.'s second-quarter net jumped to $1.13 per share, v. $1.02 last year, despite a 9% drop in sales and operating revenues. The secret: cost-reducing new production methods...
...image of an old. maimed man living in the care of his daughter. A disabling illness has put the father in a wheelchair-embittered, suspicious, and nursing a hatred for his schoolteacher wife, who contemptuously doles out his spending money. Daughter Antigone lives in a tight, self-woven net of deceit. She has retained the original name and relentless sense of justice of her counterpart in Sophocles' Antigone, but not her virtue, purity or innocence. She takes on a married man as a lover, but for both of them the fun of the game lies in deceiving their families...
...acting was a match for her singing. As for the new production itself, it was typically spare in detail but marred by the intrusion of a few Radio City Music Hall touches: an angelic choir whose halos gradually became brighter on rheostats; a womb-shaped, rigid fish net with ballerinas spread-eagled to its sides...
...former automobile company, which in 1949 sold off all its automotive properties and became solely an investment holding company. Bent exclusively on building up capital, Graham-Paige has not paid a cash dividend since 1926 but has increased its net worth from $2,500,000 to $18.5 million in the past twelve years...