Word: staid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hoped-to reach until 1975, is due to increased buying and selling by institutions that trade in large blocks of stock and thus shoot the totals higher. Many mutual funds, adopting a speculative mood, are turning over the shares in their portfolios far faster than they once did. And staid organizations outside the market are also coming in. Yale University two weeks ago announced that it was forming an investment company to plow more of its endowment money into lucrative common stocks. Such moves mean more paperwork for the exchange's 648 member organizations. But more active trading also...
...assault. The battle was joined by James Joseph Ling, 44, chairman of Dallas-based Ling-Temco-Vought, who during a nine-day fight for control of the company had eventually made a tender offer valued at $560 million-one of the biggest ever. But by week's end, staid Allis-Chalmers, which is the area's biggest employer, had delivered L-T-V its first defeat-however temporary-in Ling's long takeover history...
Wright's answer is a simple "yes." His book cannot outline a program which has not yet been conceived. But of all speeches and writings in this area, it comes closet to setting the tone and parameters within which such a program might be created. The most staid of the Black Power advocates. Floyd McKissick, and Wright are in some sense transitional men. They articulate grievances and point the way for change. They seek to mobilize the resources of the entire Negro community, impossible as it may seem, in a first plunge into group politics and economic activity--a plunge...
...more or less interested in sex than most other peoples in an increasingly permissive age, but they certainly express that interest more openly and flamboyantly. The subject seems to be on everyone's mind. Newspapers and magazines constantly frontpage details of the most lurid activities. The once-staid BBC last summer showed a boy and girl in bed together discussing their sexual history. British newspapers use four-letter words and explicit language that would surprise readers of mass-circulation papers on the Continent or the U.S. Their classified-ad pages frequently serve as arenas for the commerce...
What also makes the picture rather staid is that the dastardly plan works perfectly. Equipment doesn't go on the blink, nobody misses connections, thievery's too easy. A little fumbling and a little suspense would have made the situation more of a laff-riot. Even punchlines are terribly understated. It's as though the writer-director didn't intend us to die laughing: that's not refined...