Word: outlets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...land surface has been finecombed for microbes that might yield new antibiotics, the scientists are turning to the sea. One useful drug, cephalothin (which is effective against many germs that are resistant to penicillin), has already been developed from a mold that was recovered near a sewer outlet in the sea off Sardinia. The search, recently intensified, extends from the Sea of Japan to the frigid waters of Antarctica, from the tepid shallows of coral reefs in the Caribbean to the far-western Pacific...
Hungry Speculators. The swings tell less about Natomas than about the desperation of speculators and other investors to find a new outlet for their money. "People are hungering for something to get action out of," says Robert T. Allen, vice president of Shearson, Hammill & Co., the big Manhattan brokerage house. Especially hungry are the managers of "performance" mutual funds and hedge funds, both of which have sold themselves to investors on the promise that they could select stocks that would surge ahead no matter what the rest of the market did. The stocks that most of them selected-computer, conglomerate...
...include Hertz car-rental agencies, Walgreen drugstores and Coca-Cola bottling plants, as well as thousands of gasoline stations and all new-auto dealers. In recent years, the ranks have been joined by both Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward, which together have franchised 1,300 small-town catalogue-order outlets. Franchising has spread to businesses as disparate as art galleries, nursing homes, dating bars, travel agencies, shoe-repair shops, lawnmower-sharpening services and dental-technician schools. There is even a franchised diet service (Weight Watchers, Inc.) and a franchised system for correcting nocturnal bed-wetting (Enurtone Co.). Recently, the fastest...
Touraine stores is an autonomous company whose stock is owned by Outlet. Outside of yearly report, the company has no contact with Outlet, Ehrlich said...
...Touraine has no labor problem. Peace and freedom is merely an outside group trying to put pressure on Outlet," he said...