Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fast-turning world of packaged goods, where advertising budgets often run higher than the costs of production and a blindfolded customer can scarcely distinguish between competing brands, it is the adman's task to find and exploit any slight difference, real or imagined, in his client's product. Says one top packaged-goods executive: "If we've got a real product difference, we could let any kid from the Harvard Business School write the ads. When we've got parity of product, though, that's when we need the pros...
Some dorms have already indicated that they favor the RGA proposal by voting slight modifications in their parietal regulations...
...autonomous regions in Italy-another scheme that fits in with the party program but would only mean proliferating bureaucracy if carried out. All this has caused jitters among Italian businessmen, who have begun to hold back on investments and blame the apertura for contributing, if only psychologically, to a slight slackening of Italy's still impressive boom (the annual growth rate has slipped from 9.8% in 1961 to 7% this year, which parallels what is happening in the entire Common Market...
...Barnett. he is one of ten children. Like Barnett, he is the son of a farmer. His grandfather was a slave (Barnett's father and grandfather were both Confederate soldiers), but James Meredith served in the U.S. Air Force and came out in 1960 a staff sergeant. A slight, shy man of 29, he became, in the words of Federal Appeals Judge John Minor Wisdom, before whom he appeared in his attempts to enter the university, a "man with a mission and a nervous stomach...
...market's sudden drop echoes the signals given off by the Commerce Department's economic radar - the 30 "leading indicators" which, though still not completely compiled for August, seemed likely to show a slight downward trend in the economy. In the nation's brokerage houses, however, another set of figures loomed larger: average daily volume on the New York Stock Exchange so far in September has poked along at a bit over 3,000,000 shares, dishearteningly down from the gilded days of 1961 when daily volume averaged more than 4,000.000 shares. For the brokers, whose...