Word: regular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chairman four years ago after six years as president. He neither smokes nor drinks, otherwise keeps in shape by taking a quick 50-lap swim in his homeside pool every night. He needs all the stamina he can muster. In Akron alone, Goodyear stretches five miles, which makes his regular inspection a hearty workout. He also goes abroad several times a year and logs 2,000 miles a week visiting Goodyear's 50 other domestic plants...
Although it has no plans to sell fund shares, Prudential, the nation's biggest life-insurance company, is considering making available variable annuities, which are presently sold only through group-pension plans, to individuals as well. Unlike the ordinary annuity, an in vestment that pays off in regular fixed payments after a certain age, the return on a variable annuity is affected by fluctuations in the market value of the securities on which it is based. For the inflation-wary investor, such annuities thus figure to hold many of the same attractions as mutual funds...
There are regular hang-outs for youth. Every few nights the Palace Theater shows a movie--Hercules or the wild west or a bad Indian film. Once or twice a month there is a dance at the Centre Technique with rock-and-roll or hi-life music...
...their college attendance has been pointed out by groups as disparate as U.S. Senators and black militants. The result of these deferments is historically interesting: upper and middle-class males have managed to avoid military service altogether (until recently), while the lower classes provided almost all the regular soldiers. By-passing students is, of course, said to be in the national interest, but many contemporary critics have viewed the procedure primarily as a very effective means of forestalling the potentially unified criticism of the SSS by college students--forestalling it until after graduation when unity is gone...
...summer of '67 marked his move from dissent to resistance, as he spent the greater part of three months "hassling" with his local board in a vain attempt to be granted CO status or be reclassified 2-S. He made numerous trips to Buffalo and couldn't hold a regular summer...