Word: sec
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Young recalls that in the days before the SEC existed, "there were no required disclosures, no data. Editors had to guess at sales figures." One enterprising FORTUNE writer, doing a story on the secretive Campbell Soup Co., noted how much butter went into a vat of tomato soup, priced the cost of wholesale butter and other ingredients and figured Campbell's annual profits at $6 million. He also estimated the estate of its former owner at $120 million...
Tevatron should help right the transatlantic balance. Like Fermilab's existing accelerator, in whose tunnel it was built, the new machine is a giant four-mile-long circular particle race track, capable of whipping protons to within a shade of 186,000 miles per sec., the speed of light. When these high-velocity particles strike a target, for example, a metal bar, they shatter its component atoms, resulting in a burst of subatomic debris. Some of these particles are so ephemeral that they survive for only minute fractions of a second; from the trail they leave in detection devices...
Heavy thunderstorms last week made matters worse. Water was rushing out of the Glen Canyon spillway at about 700,000 gal. per sec., more than twice as fast as normal. With Lake Mead rising to record levels, water was about to surge over the spillways at Hoover Dam for the first time since they were tested...
...powers far from their peak. But he may already be the premier track and field athlete of his generation-the modern equivalent of his idol, Jesse Owens. Last year Lewis jumped nearly 30 ft., but fouled by an undetectable whisker. Meanwhile, track watchers are already muttering about a 9-sec...
...world-weary epigram and convoluted conceit intact. Such a notion must have occurred to the English experimental film maker Peter Greenaway. With The Draughtsman's Contract, which he wrote and directed two years ago, he has restored the Restoration sensibility. Here is a comedy-mystery laced with Triple Sec humor and stately, raunchy characters who are bound, by their social and sexual pretensions, to find an ordained place in society's elegantly constricting design...