Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...changes can come none too soon because, in the years just ahead, the stock market will be called upon to play a different and more important role than in the years just past. There will be a renewed rush by corporations to finance their expansion by issuing more common stock. In the 1960s, companies were able to get most of their financing through retained profits, bond issues or bank loans, which were fairly cheap and easy to obtain. Executives were reluctant to float stock because it would dilute their earnings per share. "And in those days," says Stein, "earnings...
There are many Alaskans who deplore the thoughtless rush towards resource exploitation. We do not object to carefully planned and regulated development, but we don't want to sell the last unspoiled environment for a handful of dollars...
...First it was the Gold Rush, then it was the Copper Rush, now it is the Oil Rush. After we drain Alaska of all its natural resources, who are we going to sell...
...center of the courtroom stage, Mrs. Kasabian held her audience, particularly the seven men and five women in the jury. They leaned forward attentively, straining to hear her narrative. She approached the details of the Tate murders in a rush of words: "Then all of a sudden I heard people screaming, saying 'No, please, no.' " What kind of screams? "Loud, loud." How long did they last? "Oh, it seemed like forever, infinite. I don't know." At another point: "I saw Tex [Charles Watson, still fighting extradition from Texas] on top of him, hitting...
...predict that the industry growing up around video cartridges will become a mainstay of the U.S. economy. By 1980, officials of RCA expect the new industry to reach $1 billion in revenues. Less conservative forecasters put the figure at three times that sum. So far, the cassette gold rush has attracted at least a dozen companies from the U.S., Japan and West Germany. They are battling for the emerging new medium with five competing but incompatible technologies...