Word: parents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like their U.S. parent, the two companies founded by Zeckendorf have fallen on lean times. Last year Webb & Knapp (Canada) lost $1,264,000, in part because of a slide in Canadian real-estate prices, and Trizec lost $2,877,000 because costs of constructing its $100 million Place Ville Marie-Montreal's Rockefeller Center-overshot estimates by $25 million...
...business to keep your own customers employed," says Brownridge. His American Motors (100% U.S.-owned) won Ontario's "A for Achievement" by increasing its Canadian purchases 500% since 1961. White Motor Co. of Canada is testing a Canadian-designed combination battery box and gasoline tank that the U.S. parent company may adopt for all White trucks. But on many manufactured items, Canadian productivity and pricing simply cannot compete. "Several firms have been to see us about buying their hydraulic systems," says Cockshutt's George Vincent. "When we tell them what we're buying at in the States...
...passed through a violent crisis. The approaching moon exerted more and more gravitational pull on the earth's oceans. Tides miles high swept around the globe in a few hours. At last the moon reached Roche's limit,* the closest that a satellite can come to its parent body without being torn to bits by gravitational forces. When the moon passed this boundary, fragments of all sizes began flying off it. Some fell on the earth, heating its atmosphere, churning its surface, forming a halo of dust around it. Any life that existed on earth at the time...
...that he no longer seems so certain to get the G.O.P. nomination. Much of the adverse reaction, they note, is based on the fact that Dr. Murphy now has possession of his and Happy's four children. While the divorce settlement does not grant exclusive custody to either parent, neither does it provide specifically for joint custody, and the precise arrangement has thus far been kept secret. In any event, Rocky's remarriage may not work entirely to his political disadvantage. For, as one Eastern politician put it: "If everyone who is divorced, or who would like...
...richly and scathingly to her bitterly impoverished girlhood in industrial Lancashire. Out of her background, she dramatically distilled a kind of urban folk poetry, humor and wisdom, and in a candidly observed relationship between a shiftless mother and a rebel daughter added fresh scenes to the eternal duelogue of parent and child. At 21, she turned again to the short and simple annals of the poor, which, in her vision, are long and squalid...