Word: taping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first month volume rose 62% on the American Stock Exchange and went up 20% on the New York Stock Exchange. Trouble is, the exchanges and the back offices of brokerage firms have not expanded and automated fast enough to keep up with the increase. In the resulting snarl of tape and paper, countless buyers have either received the wrong confirmation slips and stock certificates or failed to receive any at all. As they struggle to straighten out the mess, brokers earning upward of $50,000 a year have had to spend as much time doing the work...
That comeback by private enterprise is particularly impressive because, in the best of circumstances, it is virtually impossible for private business to gain a foothold in a field totally dominated by the Federal Government. In this case, the biggest part of the job was to beat the red-tape-ridden FHA at its own game. The door to competition was opened by FHA's rigid 6% ceiling on interest rates, which President Johnson last week asked Congress to abolish. In recurrent periods of tight money, banks and other lenders have increasingly shunned FHA and Veterans Administration loans...
...merchant seaman who has never even acted before. Poor Cow is also the first film for TV Director Kenneth Loach, 30, who has achieved a personal, idiosyncratic immediacy with a hand-held camera and ad-libbed dialogue that sounds natural enough to have been taken off a tape recorder...
Brisk Turnover. Among many cost-cutting techniques, Cantor has installed a centralized-buying operation, in which cash registers at key discount stores keep itemized sales records on tape for processing by a Manhattan computer. When stocks run low on a particular item, the computer automatically reorders it from the manufacturer. Store personnel can thus be freed from time-consuming inventory taking, and shelves are kept supplied for a brisk, six-times-yearly stock turnover, compared with three times for department stores...
...least a rudimentary course in film appreciation, while more than 100 colleges and universities have moviemaking as an accepted part of their curriculums. Even where no classes are available, students by the hundreds are forming their own film clubs and making movies with handheld 8-mm. cameras, portable tape recorders, and the unpaid acting services of hammy fellow classmates or wary adults...