Word: spurt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...savings spurt began late last year, after banks and savings and loan associations raised the interest rates to com pete with the soaring rates offered by the bond market. Recently, consumers have been especially anxious to rebuild accounts shrunken during 1966 in anticipation of a tax increase and out of economy jitters. "The consumer and his family have been expecting the worst," says Chase Manhattan Bank Vice President John Deaver. "It takes them a while to get used to the idea that things are getting better...
Teachers were falsely told that the test would show which pupils were due to "spurt ahead" academically. The teachers were given the names of 20 percent of the student body, randomly selected from all grades and all three tracks, and were told that every pupil so listed would improve dramatically within a year...
However bullish such performances among blue chips may look, high-flyers such as Avco, Syntex and Control Data have actually led the spring spurt. Last week Polaroid (up $10.63), Motorola (up $14.13) and Teledyne (up $15.75) carried on the surge, and IBM shot up a whopping $28.50, thanks to a $17 jump Thursday, to close at a record $496.50 per share. But the industrials are catching up, partly because cash-heavy institutional investors (notably mutual funds) are upping their purchases. "The more the glamour stocks go up," explains Richard Buchsbaum, research director at W. E. Hutton & Co., "the cheaper...
...show itself, aired on ABC-TV, won the ratings sweepstakes over NBC's Bonanza and CBS's The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. More important, as Cohen happily pointed out, "virtually every play in town reported a healthy spurt at the box office." Daily ticket sales for The Homecoming, produced by Cohen, which averaged $3,500 since the play opened three months ago, reached $10,000 the day after the Tony awards...
...cast's biggest problem was dealing with London's foreign language. Sometimes an actor concentrated so hard on dropping an 'h' or putting in an 'aye' that his whole line came out meaning only, "I wish I were English!" And voices invariably slipped into Cambridgeese after an arduous cockney spurt. Why didn't Hurley pick something original and indigenous? Then his cast could have projected emotions instead of taking an Eliza Doolittle lesson in reverse...