Word: option
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grace, Meet Fanny. The regularity with which Merrick racks up hits goads critics and competitors to talk of "mass production" and "supermarketeering." But his "packages" (Merrick's own ad-speak) invariably contain the best that money can option, and he is an excellent judge of show material. His only criterion for picking a show, he says, is entertainment value; yet he is capable of producing a drama such as Becket, whose expense is as high as its quality and whose entertainment is largely cerebral. Such sleaziness as Suzie Wong and such vulgar overproductions as Gypsy are balanced, surprisingly often...
Stock price boosting succeeds so well because Wall Street is full of investors looking for a lower-priced stock that may develop a new electronics or space product and become a fast-rising glamour stock. The spread of stock-option plans as a form of executive compensation has made stock-minded men of many corporate bosses who once paid little attention to Wall Street. An option is good only if the stock rises. Merger-minded companies also want their stock to have a higher price-earnings ratio; it gives them an advantage in a stock-trading merger with another company...
Yesterday afternoon the editors had the option of a tour of the Boston Globe plant or the University area. The conference continues this morning with individual seminars by CRIMSON editors on the business, news, editorial, photo, and sports aspects of newspapers. Crimeds will also meet with individual school editors to criticize their respective paper's content and layout...
...ensure a delay on the Old Colony action, Judge Robert E. Anderson of the New Haven Federal District Court granted yesterday afternoon an extension of the deadline for exercising the option from Dec. 16 to April...
...Prospects Pyle and Guard Benny Balme (6 ft. 1 in., 215 Ibs.) blocking up front, Yale had the brute strength to open holes for the driving runs of Fullback Blanchard (6 ft. 2 in., 205 Ibs.). When the defense bunched to stop Blanchard, Quarterback Singleton would run the option inside end-hitting like a fullback himself-or roll out to pass...