Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Culligan dismisses the company's financial plight with a wave of the hand: "Bankers love people who say, 'I'll double my profits next year.' " Already he has mapped out "national blitz-selling" campaigns, a "multilevel selling program." and a pride of new "inside" efficiencies. Culligan is confident that two heads will serve Curtis better than one. and for "in side man" he has chosen Vice President Clay Blair, 37, former Post managing editor. "It's a two-man job," he says, "as long as it's clear who's running the show...
Their discussion was in the form of a debate, with Mr. MacArthur holding up the tory standard and speaking first. He discussed, with intermixed humon and seriousness the plight of the Liberals in recent years and stated that the current Liberal revival was only an expression of dissatisfaction that is customary between British general elections, but that when the next poll-taking rolled around, the people would realize that they would be faced with the prospect of choosing a government and that most people who had left the Conservative sympathies would return. He ended his discussion with the statement that...
...readers of the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, the week was both grim and racy. It was a week of murder, suicide, kidnaping, drowning, robbery, accident, divorce-an ordinary week. The Herald-Examiner's 40 reporters had once again discovered man's plight and told of it with inky excitement and a taste of gore. Then, in the din and jangle of their city room, they had submitted their findings to City Editor Agness ("Aggie") Underwood, who at 59 ranks unrivaled as the Ma Parker of American journalism...
Russia last year cut its economic aid to China by 45%; total Chinese trade with Russia was down $650 million. Nor was China's economic plight helped when it had to put up hard currency for Canadian grains and British industrial imports. "Our socialist brothers are having many difficulties," a Soviet diplomat recently chortled in Washington. "And they are not over them yet-no, not for some time." Meanwhile, the U.S. is banking heavily on the breakup of the Communist "monolith." State Department officials, who a few years ago were gloomily talking of a "lifelong struggle" in the aftermath...
...When its financial plight began to force the company's hand last year, MacNeal performed a series of rejuvenating operations on the Saturday Evening Post. Nothing worked. Instead of growing better, Curtis' financial condition worsened; advertisers had lost confidence. An anthology of rumors leaked out of Curtis' Independence Square headquarters. The most persistent: a major interest in the company would soon be bought by the Manhattan book publishers Doubleday & Co., which, along with the bankers, would then be in control...