Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even this flurry had no lasting negative effect on the world's stock markets. Share prices wobbled in London and slumped in Paris only to rally again; in Zurich the rebound was strong enough to lift the market 5% by week's end. On the New York Stock Exchange, after some nervous selling in the first hours of Monday's trading, a strong surge of buying sent the Dow-Jones industrial average up 15.49 points to close at 877.60, its high for the week...
...other hand, importers predicted that the cost of a bottle of Scotch will drop only a few pennies-after the Christmas holidays. Devaluation will shave the profits of some American-owned firms with large British operations. Food-packing H. J. Heinz, for one, figures on a 16?-a-share decrease in its earnings; yet altogether, predicted Heinz President R. Burt Gookin, devaluation will mean "no more than a ripple in the U.S. economy...
Electric Cars. Mooney's present 4.8% share of the light-aircraft market comes on the strength of three models, all of them relatively low-cost ($18,430 to $23,345) offshoots of the Mark 21. Encouraged by the company's rapid growth-over the past five years, annual sales have almost tripled, to $15.2 million-Rachal merged last month with Alon, Inc., a Kansas manufacturer of training aircraft. Moving into the twin-engine field, he has contracted to build a 300-m.p.h. turboprop executive plane designed by Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. And next year...
...right to be uncommon if we can." Uncommon is hardly the word for Kauffman's pharmaceutical firm, which was founded on poker winnings, grew by selling ground oyster shells, and has made wealthy people out of typists and maintenance men who bought stock for around 66? a share when the company was young. They have since seen their shares increase...
...Poshlost speaks in such concepts as 'America is no better than Russia' or 'We all share in Germany's guilt.' The flowers of poshlost bloom in such phrases and terms as 'the moment of truth,' 'charisma,' 'existential' (used seriously), 'dialogue' (as applied to political talks between nations) and 'vocabulary' (as applied to a dauber). Listing in one breath Auschwitz, Hiroshima and Viet Nam is seditious poshlost. Belonging to a very select club (which sports one Jewish name, that of the treasurer) is genteel poshlost. Hack reviews are frequently poshlost, that is simple, but it also lurks in certain highbrow essays...