Word: retardants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practice last Thursday, and didn't work out yesterday. He will probably miss the game this afternoon, and his loss will deprive the Crimson of the only experienced signal caller. Juniors John O'Grady and Joe Roda will replace him, but the novelty of having them at quarterback may retard the Crimson from moving as early as it should...
...necessarily believe that "bigness is badness," he insists that in the case of conglomerates size alone is potentially anticompetitive. Therefore, he is not likely to miss an opportunity to challenge "giant acquisitions" even if no actual restraint of trade is involved. This action, he believes, would tend to retard such possible abuses of economic power as reciprocity. He fears, for example, that a huge diversified company would be tempted to "systematically use its tremendous purchasing power to make sales" by inducing suppliers to buy its own products...
Earnings this year have been assaulted by the 10% tax surcharge-an essentially Keynesian measure designed to retard demand and inflation as well as by the rising costs of labor, money and materials. Even so, profits generally reached new peaks in the first quarter. The Wall Street Journal, in a survey of 519 firms, found a 7.8% increase in aftertax profits-just about the same as in the last quarter...
Washington is steadily increasing its efforts to retard the sale of cigarettes in the U.S. with the broadest and most direct campaign ever made against a legally marketable product...
...nation's most urgent domestic priorities are to bring the races together and to retard inflation, which exacerbates social problems. Last week management and unions were deeply involved in struggles over those issues in two primary industries. One conflict affects auto production. Another threatens the airlines (see following story...