Word: stoke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more familiar Dow-Jones industrial average gained 13 points to 882.05, up only 12% for the year, leaving it far below its February 1966 peak. The Dow-Jones lag reflects the profit squeeze that has hit blue-chip manufacturing firms-a squeeze that only helped to stoke investors' interest in smaller, more volatile issues on the American Exchange...
...that was inaugurated by Founder Josiah. Interested in export business as well as foreign affairs, the 18th century visionary saw the potential of the colonies and endorsed the French Revolution as he had the American Revolution before it. At home, he applied advanced industrial techniques at his factory near Stoke-on-Trent, where he taught workers the art of creating finely glazed bone china...
Within the week: Actor George Hamilton, 27, was reclassified 1-A and said, "I will go whenever and wherever my country sends me"; Stoke I y Carmichael, 25, head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, was reclassified 4-F, saving him the trouble of keeping his promise not to serve if called; Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali-Cassius Clay, 25, his appeals exhausted, was ordered to report for induction on April 11, and said he'd rather die first...
With unemployment at a low 3.9% and factories straining at 93% of capacity, neither business nor labor shows much sign of adopting self-restraint while Washington continues to stoke inflation by spending money it doesn't have. "Industry has no choice other than to pass along higher costs, of which labor is responsible for the lion's share," says President Charles C. Gates Jr. of Denver's Gates Rubber...
...brilliance. It is simple: Propose a controversial topic and allow several bright and informed minds to bat it about. Jewish identity is about as original a topic as negritude, but David Levey and Yoran Ben-Porath manage to say original things about it. The other contributor, Andrew Grey-stoke, wanders aimlessly about the subject, finally admitting that he really has no firm position. Levey and Ben-Porath, conversely, attack the problem with the rigor and hard-nosedness of their chosen discipline, economics. Their articles display an impressive tightness, derived from a controlled tension between deep conviction and and an even...