Word: setups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More important, under this setup, aid would be handed out on a more hardheaded basis than it is now. Since Harry Truman launched the Point Four program of aid to underdeveloped countries in 1949, every President has argued that aid to struggling nations serves the national interest because, as Secretary of State Dean Rusk put it recently, "as others grow in economic strength, so the U.S. will continue to prosper...
...million Ibs. of oil supposedly in Amexco's 138 tanks -but as of last week Amexco had only been able to find 7,000,000 Ibs. American Express stock plummeted from $60 to $41 a share because stockholders feared that the company's unusual organizational setup might make it liable for the complete loss; Amexco is an unincorporated joint-stock venture rather than a corporation. The warehouse operation, however, was a subsidiary company, and a subsidiary's losses are not necessarily carried back to the parent...
...absence would have been a serious blow to coach John Pont's 6-2-3-defense, which has held five Ivy opponents to 905 yards on the ground so far. Humphrey, an agile linebacker, is a key man in the setup...
...public's trust in the financial community by putting its salesmen on flat salaries, eliminating carrying charges on accounts, and pioneering in informative advertising. When Mike McCarthy, a former grocery-chain consultant, took over as managing partner in 1957, he found the firm's old partnership setup as unwieldy as its name. He revamped Merrill Lynch into an incorporated brokerage house whose stock is now divided among 419 shareholders, the majority of whom are officers or employees. Last year's profits: $12 million...
When Rutgers raised their stroke to 38 in an attempt to overtake the Crimson in the sprint, Picard needed only to go up to a 36 to keep the lead, and shortly afterwards Coach Parker had won his first varsity race. Though the boat's setup was unsure at many points during the race, the inexperienced sophomores rowed well for their first test...