Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Switch in Portfolios. Even so, the experts are choosing their stocks with considerable care. In recent months, they have favored "defensive" issues that tend to advance in tandem with the population growth and the rising standard of living, e.g., food, cosmetics, tobacco, publishing, insurance, utilities and banks. As of last week, the bloom was off most of these rosy issues because prices have skipped far ahead of earnings forecasts. Now the experts are eying the industries that tend to curve along with the business cycle-oils, industrial machinery, rails, chemicals, paper-and which stand to profit if general business activity...
...vignettes ramble through Saroyan's life in no particular order, but they tend to bunch up at both ends, thus dealing mostly with his childhood and puberty and the present, i.e., his early 50s. Running through them all are those two great mythic figures, The Tax Collector and William Saroyan The Universal Genius. "My plays are the human race. And most of the plays of the other playwrights aren't." "My own [writing] which nobody's writing will outlive . . . will be discovered again and again. It will speak ... as long as any writing speaks to anybody...
...hope to hold its export markets is by associating itself with the Common Mar ket movement." With Two Voices. The answer was more mixed in industries that anticipate mixed effects from lower tariffs. Examples: ∙ELECTRONICS. Parts manufacturers, such as Texas Instruments, faced with heavy Japanese competition, tend to be for pro tection. But Motorola, which does hand somely by using Japanese transistors and other components in some of its radio and TV sets, is all for freeing trade. Says Motorola President Robert Galvin: "In the final analysis, the U.S. industrialist will be far more interested in a potential world...
...Manipulators. Most Amex specialists tend to their business, but the fact that a few were using their positions to manipulate stock prices for their own profit came to the SEC's attention last spring, when evidence piled up that Amex Specialists Gerard A. Re and Son Gerard F. had been rigging the market for more than five years, netted themselves a profit estimated...
...lawyers were sure that peppery Lee Loevinger, chief of Justice's Antitrust Division, had initiated the new action in reprisal for G.E.'s refusal to sign a consent decree under which the company would bind itself not to charge "unreasonably low" prices that might tend to harm competitors. Another theory was that Loevinger was worried by the vagueness of the proposed consent decree, which might make it legally untenable...