Word: prospect
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West Germany. The stock price index for West Germany's eight stock exchanges last week hit a new postwar peak of 172, up 85% in a year, the biggest rise of any country. Helped by the prospect of rearmament and the lifting of extremely heavy taxes on sales of stock held less than a year (new time limit: three months), German stock prices reflected the extent of West Germany's boom. Biggest gainers: Casella Chemicals, up 160% to $112 a share; Erin Bergbau (mining), up 375% to $85; Beteiligungs A. G. Ruhrort (shipping...
...appeal declared that the minimum "expenses immediately in prospect" will be about $5000 in spite of agreements by Furry's lawyer, Gerald A. Berlin, to keep his fees as low as possible. Later expenses may double the costs...
...politics as well as at the head of the National Guard. Arnulfo Arias, if he is freed, may seize the chance to whip up his followers for a new try at the presidency. Guard officers will have to recalculate their loyalties. Between political demagoguery and military ambition, the gloomy prospect for Panama is a return to the turmoil that, in the country's 51-year history, has let only five out of 28 Presidents finish their terms...
Wynn considers McIntosh, his number one player, "very fast in covering the court and good with his placing shots." Number two, Larry Scare's height and his fine touch make him a fine prospect for the future. Number three, Henry Cortesi, is one of the team's fastest men, "a good fighter with power in his shots, but one who needs experience," according to Wynn. Power is also the chief weapon of John Davis, while Albie Zimmerman relies on deception...
...breakthrough into new military ideas was long overdue. In the last decade the U.S. spent $327 billions on defense, but had no military doctrine for anything short of World War III. The age of the double deterrent, of the pistol and the claw, is not a pretty prospect. But it is a prospect-and one around which a rational military policy can be built...