Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could rise as high as $70 billion. Consequently, the memorandum presented to Carter urges him to pledge publicly that he will hold the deficit to $60 billion and at least implicitly threaten to veto big-spending bills. Says one high economic adviser: "If we go above $60 billion, the stock market will be affected and so will the dollar. It's damn important psychologically...
TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY America. A time of prosperity, when the Horatio Alger myth is still alive, if somewhat decrepit. The country is growing up so fast--growing up cynical. The rich advance, playing the stock-market and beating back the unions. The workingman comes to understand he is no more than a commodity. A world war is fought for democracy and the benefit of the wealthy. Flappers flap and workers grow accustomed to Henry Ford's innovative assembly-line factory techniques and nobody--rich or poor--can hear over all the din. No one can think. They just keep...
...afternoon the students came out. Not to be outdone by recently successful demonstrators at the University of Pennsylvania and Boston University, they chanted anti-apartheid slogans, marched and held up signs urging Harvard to divest itself of stock in firms supporting apartheid...
...week's festivities will kick off tomorrow afternoon with a visit to Happy Hour at Father's Six, and a trip to the Pro to stock up on essential supplies for the long week ahead. But do not buy any Canadian Club whiskey. The C.C. people have informed me that they hid a case of their wonderful blended whiskey somewhere in Boston. Your mission this week, should you choose to accept it, is to find that gold mine. The following clues will prove helpful...
...government. Employing the same criteria used in United Nations estimates, the Clark subcommittee decided that the 13 largest American firms in South Africa are General Motors, Mobil Oil, Exxon, Standard Oil of California, Ford Motor Co., ITT, General Electric, Chrysler, Firestone, Goodyear, 3-M, IBM and Caterpillar. Harvard owns stock in nine of these 13 firms, with a total value of over $200 million as of June, 1977, out of a $1.5 billion investment portfolio...