Word: sec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Commission sought to administer first aid in two forms. For the next six months, brokers will be able to raise their commission charges by 10% on small transactions ($100 to $5,000) and 15% on medium-size ones ($5,001 to $300,000). But after April 30, 1975, the SEC ruled, the investment industry must eliminate fixed commissions altogether, forcing brokers to compete freely with one another for investors' business...
...does. Once he has "unfolded," as the lanky San Diego State junior describes his getaway activity, he seems to accelerate with the speed of a race car suddenly shifted into high gear. At the A.A.U. relays last May in Fresno, Calif., Williams tied the world record (9.1 sec.) in the 100-yd. dash; five weeks later, in Bakersfield, he became the first runner in 13 years to win both the 100 and the 220 in an A.A.U. championship. Last week in Turin, Italy, he swept past the best of Italian competitors to a first-place finish in the 200-meter...
Nevertheless, one-third of the company's revenues still come from the cornerstone of Disney's original vision -reissues of old Disney classics, many of which are currently being rerun in a month-long retrospective at Manhattan's Lincoln Center (sec box). Company executives estimate that their primary audience turns over every seven years; so periodically, like a clockwork bubble-gum machine, one or another of the animated features is offered up again to a whole new crop of moppets...
...totality* of a major solar eclipse that will be visible across northern Africa on June 30. Although solar eclipses are not rare-at least two occur every year-this one will be unusual. Where the borders of Mali, Algeria and Nigeria meet, totality will last 7 min. 4 sec., making the eclipse the second longest in 1,433 years; the only longer one -7 min. 7 sec.-took place in 1955. A comparable eclipse will not occur again until the year 2150. Thus scientists from a dozen countries-as well as hundreds of amateur eclipse watchers-are gathering in Africa...
...incredible 31 lengths, the largest winning margin in the history of the Belmont. As he was decked with a blanket of carnations, Secretariat seemed to nod in acknowledgment; after his mile-and-a-half run, he was not even lathered. More remarkable, his time of 2 min. 24 sec. flat clipped a full 2 3/5 sec. off the Belmont record...