Word: saves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rosovsky said the shutdown may save approximately $150,000 in additional fuel bills...
...plus a 300-man Japanese press corps that could match its American counterpart in competitiveness. Shortly before the royal couple were due to arrive, a small red airplane suddenly appeared startlingly close to the White House. It was towing a banner, hooked up backwards, that read: EMPEROR HIROHITO, PLEASE SAVE OUR WHALES. (It later turned out that the flight was sponsored by the Animal Welfare Institute, in an effort to get the Emperor to join the fight against the commercial slaughter of whales.) As the plane drew nearer, the anxious Secret Service was told by air controllers that the pilot...
...midweek every Western European government save Ireland had recalled its ambassador from Madrid or kept him at home for "consultations"-gestures of protest against the executions. In Brussels, the Common Market's governing Commission dealt Spain what one official termed "the strongest political rebuff" ever given by the EEC; it recommended suspension of negotiations that had been under way since mid-1973 for a new preferential trade agreement between Spain and the Market. The impact of the EEC's move could be painful, as the nine Common Market members buy nearly half of all Spanish exports...
...already signs of a trend away from the floor. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the nation's largest broker, is on the verge of starting a plan under which it would trade odd-lot orders (those for fewer than 100 shares) in its own offices. That would save odd-lot buyers and sellers an eighth of a point price differential that they must now pay to get their orders acted upon on the floor. Investors would pay $6.25 less in commissions on a 50-share order...
Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, took a philosophic view, saying that whichever side had lost on the local level would have appealed to Washington anyway, "so the decision may save time in the long...