Word: recoup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Setons settled down in a fashionable home near the Battery. But by the turn of the century, William Seton's fortune had collapsed, and so had his health. On their doctor's advice, they went to Italy in 1803, where Seton hoped to recoup his health and financial losses. There he died, leaving Betty Seton. at 29, a nearly penniless widow with five children...
...cost of such aid would be high to the railroads, already suffering under competition from trucks, buses and planes. Even so, the job eliminations that the railroads want probably would result in savings of some $350 million annually after ten years. It is unlikely that the railroads can recoup the full $500 million a year that they claim featherbedding costs, largely because in some states the size of railroad crews is set by law, and the work-rule changes would have little or no effect...
...insists that the new contract, whenever it is signed, expire on Oct. 31, 1964. The date is meaningful. It would move the printers' contract back to coincide with that of the Newspaper Guild, whose role as standard-bearer for the printing craft unions Bert Powers intends to recoup for the I.T.U. It also falls just before the national elections, an event of such news significance that any strike called on Oct. 31 would turn the city's newspaper publishers into frantic...
...chief of the French General Staff for his foot dragging over De Gaulle's Algerian policy. It will not be smooth going at Sud Aviation either for Puget, a quiet, amiable St.-Cyr graduate. Though Sud Aviation made $8,300,000 last year, it has yet to recoup the original development costs of the Caravelle, and faces even greater outlays on the Mach 2 Super Caravelle, which it plans to turn out in cooperation with the British Aircraft Corp...
...between $12 million and $15 million, by Agriculture's own estimates. Anxious to ease the Estes burden he has carried for weeks. Freeman pointed out that the scandal had taken place under the Eisenhower Administration, that his regime had stopped it, and that he was taking steps to recoup Government losses incurred by the illegal transactions...