Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stock market was closed today or else I'd have bought some shares," McCurdy added...
...against other currencies, and Americans will wind up paying more for imports. The impact on the U.S. trade deficit, which last year reached a record $28.5 billion, will also be severe. In January alone, the deficit hit an eleven-month high of $3.1 billion, largely because oilmen rushed to stock up and beat future price increases...
...that raising the drinking age at midnight on April 1 would encourage last-minute parties, especially since March 31 is a Saturday. State Rep. William G. Robinson said if the measure had taken effect on April Fool's Day, "the legislature and governor would have been a damn laughing stock." He recommended allowing the usual 90-day grace period because students would be out of school when the law goes into effect and therefore less likely to protest...
There's something for almost everybody in this overly long (300 pages), linguistically contorted and incredibly redundant report. Commission members waded through a lot of evidence before finalizing their recommendations, and they want us to know it. Stock arguments and phrases are beaten to death; even the most ridiculous alternative plans are debated in agonizing detail. Eventually, however, an argument takes shape...
...primary recurring expense involves so-called "opportunity costs." This is the potential lower profit which comes from avoiding stocks of companies which operate in South Africa. Of course, this cost is highly speculative--Stanford did not even venture to estimate it. Harvard's estimates of $1.8-6.8 million annually for recurring costs are based on a Princeton study of the stock market in the years 1953-1968. This study demonstrated the overall greater profitability of investment in the large multinational corporations, which comprise the bulk of U.S. business interests. However, in the ten years since 1968 the multinationals have...