Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...net effect of the decision was to return the Fikes case to the Alabama courts for retrial-this time without use of the tainted confessions. More important was the overall effect: once again, and this time by a split decision, the court had inflamed the suspicions of critics who hold that too many of its recent decisions are anchored more in sociology than in the solid substance...
Threatened Ruin. But if Nasser's sweeping decrees won little immediate net gain for his treasury, they threatened ruin to Egypt's middle class, which depends on trade with the West for its existence. Abroad, Egyptianization was bound to destroy the possibility of attracting new Western private investment in Egypt...
Midway in the first period of the East-West professional All-Star basketball game, Boston's Bill Sharman cut loose with a long pass to his teammate Bob Cousy. Cousy never got his hands on the ball. It sailed over his head and dropped cleanly through the net for a 70-ft, basket, probably the longest unintentional field goal on record...
...literature, a publicist, a banker and an engineer) staged an astonishing show of informative bidding. Their inspired leads were clairvoyant. Some of the tricks in their book even had Bridge Writer Goren wagging his head. A typical hand on which bad luck and poor judgment cost the U.S. a net 1,530 points...
CANDY-STORE sales are souring under increasing competition from chains, supermarkets, drugstores. Dun & Bradstreet survey shows average candy shopkeeper draws yearly salary of $3,551, has net profit of $102 on sales of $25,550. Almost half of owners are running "unprofitable operations...