Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When "The China Syndrome" opens tomorrow in 800 theaters across the country, the blood pressure of every electric power power executive whose company runs a nuclear power plant will go up like a skyrocket on the Fourth of July. And when the stock market opens Monday, the stocks of those power companies and of the companies that build the nuclear reactors may well go through the floor--all the way to China...
...costs. By providing almost limitless funds for hospital services, Medicare and Medicaid fostered loose management, easy expansion and profits for related industries. Improvements in quality or access to care have generally been made at great cost. Hospitals compete for physicians with expensive new technology and abundant beds, and doctors stock the wards. Because insurance usually covers in hospital care, doctors tend to hospitalize a patient for procedures which could be done on an outpatient basis, to keep the patient in the hospital longer, and to overutilize marginally useful services. The physician usually isn't a hospital employee...
Hampshire will sell stocks totalling $34,000 in General Electric, FMC Corporation and Ingersoll Rand, the three corporations with interests in South Africa which Hampshire invests in. This represents roughly ten per cent of its total stock holdings, Adelle S. Simmons, president of Hampshire College, said yesterday...
...Unlike a stock exchange, the spot market has no big board, no floor, and at present, no ceiling-on prices anyway. It is often called the Rotterdam market because most of the world's spot oil moves through that Dutch port city. But the spot market exists anywhere that a trader with a shipload of oil available for immediate sale can connect with a big-ticket buyer. Transactions can be and have been made in London, Houston, Hong Kong and Eleventh Avenue diners in Manhattan...
...Blochs got another tough break-or so it seemed-some years later. By 1962 their H. & R. Block Co. was doing well enough in tax consulting to go public, but a big underwriter backed out at the last minute. The brothers were forced to keep most of the stock for themselves. Today they have by far the nation's largest tax-preparation firm, and the shares of President Henry, Chairman Richard and their families are worth $81 million...