Word: tenseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During 1972, at least four individuals and three families in the U.S. are known to have made on paper not just millions but tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in stock profits. Alas for the dreams of the average investor, all were rich to begin with, and their formula...
In the three days that followed, the nation paid tribute to the memory of Lyndon Johnson's gargantuan presence. As his body lay in state at the L.B.J. Library in Austin and later in the Rotunda of the Capitol, tens of thousands stood in line to pay homage at...
Stock exchanges are tightly knit clubs, and hardly anything has agitated their members more than the question of whether to let in the managers of mutual funds, pension funds, insurance companies and bank trust departments. By forming or buying brokerage subsidiaries that could trade on the exchanges, these institutional investors...
Tens of thousands of buraku-min have tried to flee oppression by "passing." But the risk of discovery is high -partly because of the diligence of private detectives hired either by corporation personnel managers or by parents who suspect that their offspring's fiance may be of buraku-min...
Perón's leavetaking was a shabby affair. The streets around his suburban Buenos Aires home were virtually deserted as his motorcade of 20 cars pulled out for Ezeiza Airport. Instead of the tens of thousands who were turned back by troops ringing the airport when el lider...