Word: shared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...primary considerations appear to be rising faculty salaries and dwindling classroom and dormitory space. The tuition hikes are intended to discourage applications from out-of-state students and force those who persist to shoulder a larger share of the real costs of their education. One possible result is that public colleges and universities will become more provincial...
...that they are "formulating plans" to begin exploratory drilling off Sumatra by year's end sent the stock up 101 points in one day early last week, to 106⅜. It closed Friday at 101⅜−or about 85 times Natomas' 1968 earnings of $1.20 a share...
...dinosaurs-gigantic and impregnable, but slow-moving and ill-adapted to a swiftly changing environment. As a result, the insurance industry has been losing its relative importance in the business world. Inflation has made the fixed-dollar guarantees that insurance policies provide look less attractive year by year. The share of the savings dollar used to purchase life insurance has dwindled steadily from 51% in 1945 to less than 15% today. Conservative management and restrictive federal and state regulations have kept most of the insurers' $240 billion in assets tied up in longterm, low-return investments, such...
...their loans were helping other businessmen to grow wealthy while the insurance companies took most of the risk. As a result, insurers are no longer content merely to lend money for the construction of apartments, shopping centers and other structures, and collect a fixed-interest return. They demand a share in the ownership and management, and a large slice of the profits...
When Mexico bought 66% of the Mexican affiliate of Pan American Sulphur Co. in 1967, Quintana was one of four businessmen invited to share 35% of the investment. Now that Mexico seeks to develop its own oil industry, Quintana is reaching out again. He will provide all the drilling equipment for the venture...