Word: reckonings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shares, issued at $64.50 five years ago when Ford went public, have climbed to a high of $117.50-a price so steep that it discourages purchases by small investors. Meanwhile, the stock of Ford's archrival, General Motors, has been selling briskly at around $55. Since the automakers reckon that a shareholder is likely to buy the car made by the company in which he has invested, Ford was understandably anxious to widen ownership of its stock...
...important, the misery-ridden land is now eligible to share in the Alliance for Progress. The day the OAS lifted its sanctions, the White House announced that an Alliance "task force" headed by Teodoro Moscoso, Latin American director of A.I.D., will speed to Santo Domingo (once Ciudad Trujillo) to reckon up the national dollar needs for recovery...
Since last spring, when the John Birch Society was flushed from the secrecy of its chapter meetings into public view, a new and militant minority of the far right has increasingly become a force to reckon with in U.S. political life. But last week came the reaction-and across the land, there was thunder against the ultra right...
...critics, from Washington to such vehemently anti-Communist nations as Nationalist China, fear that in his pursuit of compromise, U Thant may gravely inhibit the U.N.'s role as the "conscience of mankind." They may reckon without U Thant's quiet but nonetheless firm belief that peace cannot be achieved through passive neutralism, which would mean a withdrawal from the battle for peace." Pointedly, he has declared: "Whoever occupies the office of the Secretary-General must be impartial, but not necessarily neutral...
...returned with interest in the form of repatriated profits. Similarly, the increase in trade between the Common Market partners may well begin by reducing U.S. sales to Europe, but it will also speed Europe's economic growth-to the ultimate benefit of the U.S. State Department economists reckon that an increase of anything over ¼ of 1% in the growth rate of the Market nations would lead to a notable upsurge in their demand for U.S. goods...