Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...post a profit of $34 million during 1962's first nine months. Much of the comeback resulted from General Dynamics' decision to write off the losses from its Convair 880 and 990 jets in a single year (1961) instead of spreading them over several years, and its prudent use of tax advantages. But the black ink also reflected a newly lean, hard look in the company's top management...
Losing Their Shirts. Behind this recovery is an enthusiastic underwear salesman with a policy of "prudent aggression." He is balding Sol Kittay, 52, a British immigrant who rose from a $12-a-week office-boy's job to become a successful salesman casting around for a firm of his own. In 1945, with savings and a borrowed $100,000, he bought a rundown Ohio textile mill, put it back in the black, started expanding. Within six years, he was big enough to buy B.V.D...
...First there is the sticky-tongued fun of pasting them in books and watching the books accumulate. Then there is the happy trip to the trading center with its shining array of treasures that seem to be free. And then the glow of self-congratulation at shrewd and prudent shopping...
...turned wrong side outwards without discovering a blemish to the world." In keeping with the patient, prudent makeup of its author, the Monroe Doctrine was no slapdash improvisation...
...kernels of the 1962-63 Broadway season have been heating up for months now, and next week the corn will start to pop. At the box offices of unopened shows, giddy daredevils are lining up and waving cash. Prudent selectors are still going to the best of the shows that have survived from last season...