Word: nets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strength of his name, was running right behind Liberal Marcos. Although the defeat of handpicked Candidate Pajo suggested that a good many Filipinos had had their fill of Carlos Garcia, the Nacionalista Party as a whole had apparently profited from one cynical popular argument: "The mosquitoes inside the mosquito net have grown fat sucking your blood, and maybe they'll be satisfied. Why let in fresh, hungry ones...
...creature crouched in the net at the Montreal Canadiens' end of the ice looked like nothing ever seen before in the National Hockey League. His face was covered by a flesh-colored, fiber-glass mask slashed by two dark ovals for eyes and a hole for a mouth that looked from a distance like a gush of black blood. But Jacques Plante, 30, the brooding, acrobatic French Canadian who is hockey's finest goalie, was oblivious to the shocked cries from the stands. Said he: "I don't give a damn how it looks...
...helped to make them worse. But seclusion rooms are being converted into kitchenettes and beauty parlors; camisoles and straps are disappearing. Shock treatment is seldom used, and only for selected patients. Though admission rates are rising, release rates are rising faster, so that in many states there is a net decrease in the numbers of mentally ill confined to hospitals...
Brunswick-Balke Collender Co. reported a record September quarter net of $5.15 per share, boosting nine months' earnings to $755 a share v. $4.73 last year. Motorola Inc. had record nine months' earnings of $4.90 per share v. $1.66 last year. Other nine months' results...
...installment credit is growing faster than in 1955, said the Chase Bank, consumer income is now larger. Despite its dollar increase, the rise in installment credit equals only 1.9% of income after taxes, slightly less than the rise in 1955. Despite higher dollar auto sales this year, the net increase on auto credit after repayments on past credit will be only slightly more than half that in 1955, thus leaving room for credit expansion to buy 1960 models...