Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bull jumped from making small units directly to producing the Gamma 60, a costly ($1,000,000 to $3,000,000) marvel that can calculate missile trajectories and turn out a 300,000-man payroll simultaneously. To compete in the intermediate-computer range, Machines Bull distributed RCA models with scant profit. With 80% of its output rented instead of sold, the company gradually discovered that it was not receiving income enough to amortize its nine plants. Machines Bull stepped up its borrowing, cut back on research, and chopped prices. The downward spiral had begun...
Needless to say, the big problem confronting the Crimson will again be the Bengals' All-Everything Bill Bradley. Last weekend Bradley was held to a scant (for him) 30 points as Harvard's defensive strategy worked to perfection. Leo Scully guarded the 6-5 junior during the first half and held him to 13; Bradley added 17 in the second half against the Crimson zone...
With a 2-1 Ivy record, Harvard stands in fourth place behind Cornell (4-1), Penn (3-1), and Princeton (3-1). This weekend's results must be encouraging to Crimson followers; last week the quintet whipped giant-killing Columbia, and lost by a scant three points to Cornell...
...Scant Records. With that kind of start, Astor never was headed. He poured liquor into the frontier areas on the theory that the trader with the whisky was certain of cornering the market. One by one, the independent dealers went out of business or merged with the American Fur Co. Astor's greed was enormous. If company furs were exported in his own ships, he charged the company for the freight. The trappers who supplied him had to buy their clothes and equipment at American Fur Co. posts at a 300%-to-400% markup. But Astor's personal...
LUTHER, by John Osborne, may scant the towering Christian, but it is a dynamic portrait of a fiery Promethean rebel. To see Albert Finney in Luther is to watch chained lightning hit the boards...