Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more of the regional telephone companies competing against AT&T for the jobs, thus enabling them to tailor their bids accordingly. He reportedly told an official of Southern Bell, a subsidiary of the regional BellSouth company, exactly how much the parent firm would have to bid in order to win. (BellSouth denies adjusting its bids...
Normally, at least in the mind's eye, these pneumonia festivals are staged in intimate Tyrolean villages built on the order of cuckoo clocks and peopled largely by Peter Sellers. But this year's host, for 16 days starting Saturday, is Calgary, Canada, a prairie town muscled into an oil capital, a sprawling city in every sense. Venues may seem a bit more scattered than usual, but this is where Canadian ingenuity comes in. The writer Pierre Berton offers a definition: "A Canadian is someone who could make love in a canoe." After all, isn't intimacy part balance...
...between the stock and futures markets. At the New York Stock Exchange, directors voted to restrict futures-based program trading on the Big Board whenever the Dow Jones industrial average rises or falls 50 points or more in a day. At this rate, the markets may put houses in order even before the regulators...
America's comparative decline in the international pecking order will not imply a lapse of national drive or purpose: "It simply has not been given to any one society to remain permanently ahead of all the others." Furthermore, enlightened leadership should be able to detect changing realities and thus prevent a slide from turning into a crash: "The only serious threat to the real interests of the United States can come from a failure to adjust sensibly to the newer world order." Not everyone will welcome or accept Kennedy's bittersweet verdict that the U.S. may become healthier...
...biggest order was from the Harvard Model Congress, which ordered 65 carnations to be sent to staff members...