Word: reckonings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when a Puritan boat finally emerges, it is usually filled with oarsmen who are large and powerful. This year is no exception, and when Winthrop bested Quincy, Dunster, and Adams in last Thursday's preliminary heat, the Puritan eight proved that it is once again a boat to reckon with...
When they have to publish figures, companies have numerous devices for juggling or obscuring them. One Brussels bank lists the value of its 24-story headquarters at 2?. And though Germany's automaking Daimler-Benz reported a $10 million net profit for 1961, German financial experts reckon, on the basis of its taxes, that its actual earnings were nearer to $50 million. This lack of reliable information scares small European investors away from investing in European stocks and is a chief reason why Europe has failed to develop a capital market. As a result, instead of turning...
...stranger to tight corners. Cohn has usually extricated himself with the footwork and quickness of tongue he learned as chief inquisitor for the late Senator Joseph McCarthy in the days when Cohn and Schine were names to reckon with. In recent years, bankrolled in part by high-interest moneylenders in Hong Kong and Panama, Cohn has restlessly bobbed in and out of control of five travel agencies, two airline-insurance companies, a savings and loan association, a small loan company and a swimming-pool building company. His associates in various deals have ranged from the late Columnist George Sokolsky...
...course, one strategic strike, even by a small union, can still cause an awful mess, as disconsolate New York newspaper nonreaders can testify. Organized labor is still a formidable force to reckon with, even though its membership is not increasing and much of its idealism seems to have evaporated. But it is not quite as formidable as it once...
Another name to reckon with also came out of the voting: Michigan's George Romney, and he is the subject of this week's cover story...