Word: sold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their income taxes, but those who really need it would keep it for basic needs. The main beneficiaries would be the children. No fewer than 62 nations, including Canada and all the countries of Europe, already give family allowances. The family allowance, unlike the negative income tax, could be sold politically as a program for children rather than the poor, and thus would probably be more acceptable to Congress and the public. A "negative income tax," on the other hand, sounds like what it is, an economist's conceit, while a "guaranteed annual income" suggests featherbedding on a grand...
...birth control pills last year, West German Housewife Ursula Knack, then 27, was a bit puzzled by the label on the bottle. Her doctor had prescribed "Eu-gynon," but the bottle was marked "En-zynorm" - an aid to digestion. Frau Knack simply concluded that the Pill must be sold under a disguised name be cause some people disapprove...
...inarticulate waiter. Until the early 1960s, he knew food almost as well as the maitre d' and used his knowledge to good effect. If the restaurateur wanted to push calf's liver one day, he simply told his men, and they went among the tables and sold calf's liver. But now, "the biggest and most persistent problem in the industry is the dearth of good, experienced waiters," says Joe Baum, vice president of Manhattan's Restaurant Associates Industries, Inc. (Four Seasons, La Fonda...
Borman has been air-oriented from youth, when he built model airplanes and sold newspapers to pay for flying lessons. A West Pointer who opted for the Air Force, he earned a master's degree in aeronautical engineering from Caltech, broke an eardrum during a practice dive-bombing run and for a while was certain that he could never again take to the air-let alone fly to the moon. But when his eardrum healed completely, he resumed flying, and now has a total of more than 5,400 hours of flying time. Between training sessions...
According to the SEC, the bad news was reported to 15 mutual funds and other big institutional customers as early as June 20 - four days before Douglas an nounced its troubles. During that period Douglas stock dropped from $90½ a share to $69; the investment companies liquidated or sold short their holdings, thus saving or earning a total of $4,500,000. Merrill Lynch was paid for its early-warning services, contended the SEC, by the commissions it collected on the institutional trading. And even as the big organizations were dumping Douglas, Merrill Lynch continued to buy the stock...