Word: rebound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other Ivy League action this Saturday, Yale will host Dartmouth, Princeton will try to rebound against Brown, and Cornell will tackle winless Columbia...
Penn's 10-8 upset victory over Cornell resulted from a fourth period field goal. Cornell entered the game unbeaten and it will probably rebound strongly in its contest this week with Harvard...
...many months ago, there seemed to be no happy ending in sight for 1968. When sales failed to rebound strongly from the auto strikes of late 1967, Henry Ford II could only say that sales were "not as good as we hoped." Since then, of course, the prospects have altered dramatically. Currently, dealers are getting a lot of sales mileage from the widespread expectation that inflation and the cost of mandatory safety items will add $100 to $125 to car prices next year. In one recent newspaper ad, the "Dodge Boys" urged customers to buy now to "beat...
...rebound principle apparently works in matters of business as well as affairs of the heart. Early this year, when cigarette-making Lorillard Corp. tried to merge with Schenley Industries, it was rebuffed in favor of the Glen Alden Corp. Meanwhile, Loew's Theaters Inc. was scorned when it attempted to merge with Commercial Credit Corp., which opted instead to merge with Control Data Corp. Last week the two losers got together on the rebound. In a complicated swap of Lorillard stock for that of Loew's (value of the exchange: at least $418 million), the two companies plan...
Paradoxically, that cushion of unused plant and manpower, plus the country's still ample $4.75 billion reserves, is what now gives France its opportunity for an economic rebound without serious inflation. Despite the staggering wage gains of French labor (13% to 14% for all of 1968), the Gaullist government aims at holding price increases to 3% during the last half of this year. It is relying on what one Finance Ministry official calls "a battery of tools to regulate prices without actually enforcing price controls." Under the French contrat de programme, for example, thousands of industrial and retail firms...