Word: reflections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main trouble with the averages is that they represent only a relatively small sampling of the total 1,501 stocks on the New York Stock Exchange. Thus they do not always agree-or even accurately reflect what is happening in the whole market. In one recent week, for example, all four of the best-known averages differed on how the market had acted...
...Gaitskell will give his second speech in Sanders Theater tonight at 8 p.m. on regional problems in Europe, including NATO, as they reflect the over-all problem of "co-existence." Elliott, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science...
...good moral leader, or his attitude toward emphasis of the game was not attuned to that of the College, it should say so. By buying off Jordan at $25,000, the Corporation is making football seem like a very important activity in Harvard life. Does the Committee's accusation reflect on Jordan's ability to teach his players how to win games? The natural reaction, when a football coach is fired at the end of a losing season, is that he didn't know how to win games. If the Faculty Committee doesn't mean that Jordan taught his players...
...from Vice President Nixon's remarks, right after the U.S. voted against Britain and France in the U.N. General Assembly on the issue of Egypt: "For the first time in history, we have shown independence of Anglo-French policies toward Asia and Africa which seemed to us to reflect the colonial tradition. That declaration of independence has had an electrifying effect throughout the world." Britons saw the idea confirmed last week as India's Premier Jawaharlal Nehru emerged from intimate conference with President Eisenhower wreathed in smiles and declaring that U.S. policy is "not as rigid...
...stockholders, but there is no alternative." Though dividends were up slightly to $12 billion v. $11.2 billion in 1955, they were still only 60% of profits compared to the 75% that corporations consider the normal payout to stockholders. As one result, Wall Street's bull market did not reflect the boom. It climbed to a high of 521.05 on the Dow-Jones industrial average in April, then slipped back 50 points, and at year's end was just about where it started...