Word: siftings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swarms of auditors sift through company records, spreading revelations of fraud indicate losses of many millions. Though dozens of major banks, insurance companies and brokerage houses are involved, the biggest losers are likely to be holders of the company's 8,000,000 shares of outstanding stock, which was once worth $80 a share but is now valued by some brokers at a round, dismal zero. At week's end, after three of Equity's top managers, including President Stanley Goldblum, had resigned, the company began bankruptcy proceedings...
...anxiety to the next era, our era ... Now is the time for art to lead man." If there are times when poetic manifestos are needed, this is one of them, and Dey has made himself a man of the moment. But I really don't know whether poets will sift out Dey's commitment from the quirks of his style. As manifestos should be, "On the Spot" is daring and cranky; depending on how you look at it, though, its manner can be so self-consciously elevated that its poetic-prose works against the real interests of the statement...
Anyone who can successfully sift through the morass of claim and counterclaim which characterized this production will arrive at the confounding conclusion that there are no hard and fast answers in the graduate student controversy...
...since the forced breakup of Standard Oil Co. in 1911. In it, the Government charged that International Business Machines Corp. exercised such overwhelming power in the burgeoning data-processing field that genuine competition was impossible. The case has droned on fruitlessly since then; federal prosecutors have been forced to sift through 27 million documents provided by IBM in its defense. Last week, in response to a court order demanding that it spell out precisely how IBM should be punished, the Government took a time-honored legal zig and asked for the ultimate. IBM, it said, should be broken up into...
...with social or political overtones." So, to forfend this fragile galaxy of genial political incompetents from overtaxing their powers of decision, the Austin report would entrust the power to formulate University moral investment policy to a "single officer of substantial standing, with a small staff, who would invite and sift suggestions from all members of the University community with respect to what might be termed the nonfinancial aspects of the University's role as investor...