Word: netted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dane Bernbach, one of the top ten, last year lost seven clients, including Broxodent Tooth Brushes, Ocean Spray Cranberries, Rheingold Beer and Warner Bros. At the same time, DDE picked up 14 new ones, including the Sylvania division of General Telephone & Electronics, Parker Pens and American Tourister Luggage. The net gain in billings was $10 million and DDB scarcely stopped to worry. Says Foote, Cone & Belding's Founder, Fairfax Cone: "We can have a cancellation tonight, without anyone batting an eye, of a $1,000,000 account. This means $150,-000 of gross income we had counted on that...
...concede that the kid with the sulphurous temper has something-and besides he isn't a kid any more. Since the financial success of The Sound of Music- a Dick Zanuck product all the way-Fox has moved steadily from post-Cleopatra losses to $15,420,000 in net profits in 1967. Listed for production are such ambitious projects as: Hello, Dolly!; Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet; Staircase, a comedy about two aging homosexuals;The Great White Hope, a corrosive drama of Negro prejudice...
...spite of a plague of pulled muscles, bruised shoulders, and sore arms, however, the laxmen managed to net a 3-2 record overall against some of the toughest competition in the nation...
Under the Net. The F-111 is the world's first combat plane with the so-called "variable geometry" wing, which extends for greater lift during takeoff and landing, folds back for less drag at supersonic speeds. Its "terrain radar," which automatically adjusts the plane's altitude to accord with the topography, is supposed to enable the plane to hug the ground while flying at a speed of 900 m.p.h. and thus dash in below the enemy radar net. If the first F-111 did hit a mountain, it was probably due to a malfunction in the terrain...
...same time, a growing disenchantment with foreign aid has led to a leveling-off in grants and other assistance. Although the gross national products of industrialized North America, Europe and Japan have increased more than $300 billion since 1961, the net outflow of aid from their governments is just about the same as it was then-$6 billion. U.S. foreign aid accounts for half the total; but the U.S. gives only six-tenths of 1% of its G.N.P. in aid-a much lower ratio than France, Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands, all of which give 1% or more...