Word: sums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their big rival, now feel that only the reopening of Intra will bring back confidence in Lebanon's key banking industry. A recent government-commissioned report by Lebanese financial experts pegs Intra's assets at only $8,000,000 less than its liabilities, a relatively small sum that the bank directors themselves could make up out of their pockets. Bedas, who was out of the country when the crisis struck, has stayed out, but has been scouring the U.S. and other financial markets, where he has raised a reported $70 million. And if the bank wants to raise...
...Fall of '64, for the gargantuan sum of $8000, Mayer had mounted a dazzling production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Utopia, Limited on the Loeb mainstage. He lost no time getting to the vital center of HDC politics...
...goes to the farmer, 40? to the wholesaler and distributor, and only 21? to the retailer. Supermarket executives point out that their industry's profit margin after taxes has scarcely changed since 1960, runs a modest 1.3% of sales. But that widely used, poor-mouthing figure does not sum up the whole situation. By the more incisive measure of profit on invested capital, supermarkets earn 11.5%, almost exactly as much as the average for all U.S. manufacturing...
...said Ehrenburg, should imitate some of the better practices of the Western press. A correspondent, he said, should "speak the language of the country on which he reports, maintain close contact with all circles of society, keep his ear open to a variety of contradictory opinions, and only then sum up his impressions...
Though the G.O.P. plans to spend $1,600,000 of that sum, Millionaire Shapp has made Shafer look like Scrooge. In Philadelphia and Pittsburgh alone, the Democrat's homely, intense visage peers out from 180 buses and 400 taxis. Along highways from the Alleghenies to the Poconos, 1,200 bright orange Shapp billboards vie with the autumn foliage; 80 radio stations play his 30-and 60-second spots ("If you liked William Penn, you'll love Milton Shapp"). Local TV stations will carry at least 300 last-minute Shapp spiels; his workers are mailing a four-color...