Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, few brokers expected the stock market to sustain its momentum in the weeks just ahead. Said Newton D. Zinder, a top E. F. Hutton & Co. analyst: "The market now is vulnerable to bad news, just as it was vulnerable to good news before." Yet peace, if it comes, seems likely to push stock prices to new highs. That is what happened sooner or later after World Wars I and II and the Korean...
...intellectual shocker its creators no doubt intended, Planet of the Apes is a joke. But the joke is funny enough often enough to sustain the picture through a series of embarrassing lapses in logic, some third-rate color photography, and sets worthy of the more outlandish oriental monster movies. Viewed with tolerance, and press passes, Planet of the Apes can be appreciated alternately as low comedy, high adventure and, at moments, serious science fiction. In other words...
...executed hundreds of civilians during their Tet offensive, but the slaughter was particularly marked in and around Hue, where estimates of those put to death range from 200 to 400. British Journalist Stewart Harris, who opposes U.S. policy in Viet Nam and declares . that "my instinct is not to sustain it by writing propaganda," recently visited Hue and vicinity to investigate the executions. Last week he reported his findings in the Times of London...
...SDRs will consist entirely of entries on the IMF's ledgers, in proportion to each nation's regular IMF contributions, they will become a permanent addition to the monetary reserves of IMF countries. SDRs will be used to settle accounts between nations, which need growing reserves to sustain the growth of world trade. Without SDRs, most governments believe, trade would stagnate because newly mined gold is going into hoarding and industrial use while the U.S. and Britain are striving to limit their outflow of dollars and pounds...
...pace were clear. He had to maintain interest in the contest so unkindly rendered meaningless by George Romney's withdrawal. He needed more than ever to hold the spotlight lest it wander to the late-blooming Rockefeller write-in campaign. And looking beyond New Hampshire, he had to sustain the momentum that so far has put him ahead in the competition for the Republican nomination...