Word: penciled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dividing the closing price of a company's stock by its net income per share for the most recent twelve months. If a company earns $2 per share, and its stock sells for $34, its price/earnings ratio is 17. P/E ratios can be figured out by anyone with a pencil, a stack of paper and access to stock-price quotations and quarterly earnings reports ?but there is no longer any need to bother. The Associated Press has begun including P/E ratios for every common stock* on the New York and American exchanges in the daily market tables that...
...Moakley victory celebration was written in the stars on November 7, it took some pretty fancy pencil pushing to put it there. Hicks had defeated Moakley in the 1970 Democratic primary with her solid core of supporters. Realizing that it was impossible to unseat Hicks in the primary, Moakley sat out the 1972 preliminaries to challenge her head-on as an Independent in the general election...
...RIGHT AWAY we slip through the present's thin veneer and are submerged in the whole history of an object--in this case, a simple pencil. The entirety of one of the earliest of Nabokov's brief chapters is devoted to illustrating the past visible in that anonymous pencil, from the grinding of its graphite and the felling of the pine for its case to the final implement, all in a discovered second of perception...
...Trotsky was a grand old man of the revolution who lived inside his closely guarded compound dictating memos and manifestoes and reading newspapers and magazines for news of the world outside. (In one scene of the movie he good-naturedly marks up a copy of TIME with a red pencil.) Not only is the fire virtually gone from Burton's Trotsky, it is impossible to see how it could ever have been kindled...
...blocks south of the Common on a beeline, a 19-story highrise Holiday Inn has begun to germinate. After four years of constant disputes with neighborhood and environmental groups concerned with the building's impact on traffic and skyline the owners. Cambridge Planners Trust, have decided to erect the pencil thin structure and are now preparing its foundation...