Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that requires no judgment. We want to decide what is important and cover those aspects well." This quiet, well-mannered approach to the news has been gaining readers: the Star's circulation has risen 51,078, to 309,245, in the past five years. In the same period, the Post's circulation increased 58,804, to 467,505. From time to time, the Star has held tentative merger talks with the other Washington afternoon paper, the sprightly Scripps-Howard News. But chances of such a union are dim now that the Star is well...
...artist credits his period as a billboard painter, following his departure from the University of Minnesota, with pointing him toward both the idiom and the mystique of the open road. He uses cars, planes and the notion of motion generally to convey what he considers basic American traits: devotion to progress and prodigality, record-shattering creativity and waste...
Starting this week and continuing for an indefinite period, trading will end at 2 p.m., 90 minutes earlier than usual, at the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange and in the over-the-counter market of unlisted issues. Most regional exchanges have adopted similarly shortened hours. The markets also decided to close for trading on Lincoln's Birthday, Feb. 12, to give back-office workers an extra day to whittle down the logjam...
Biggest of all the airplane-owning private travel groups in the U.S. is Washington-based Club Internationale, with 17,000 members in 35 cities. Unlike the others, it operates on the principle of "pay now, go later." Members kick in $995 in weekly installments over a three-year period. In each of the first two years, they are entitled to a ten-day vacation in the Caribbean or Central America. The third year brings the big payoff: 20 days in Europe...
...repay one per cent of his gross annual income for 30 years after leaving school. If a participant in the program borrowed $6000 and earned $10,000 each year after graduating, he would pay the Bank $200 a year, for a total of $6000 at the end of the period. Most students would probably pay the Bank more than they had been loaned, but anyone who earned a high salary quickly and felt that he would lose too much by staying in the repayment plan could "buy-out" by paying off the amount he borrowed--compounded at standard...