Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more candidates find it expedient to run as individuals rather than party men. In the age of artful image making, a legion of polished professional consultants are managing gubernatorial and congressional campaigns from coast to coast. Opinion sampling and analysis have become an ever more sophisticated and valued tool...
...Grace and Fanny Farmer. Mergers are usually consummated by stock swaps, and when shares fall, the deal loses its allure. The mutual funds have become so bearish that last week they dumped some stock in large blocs. They were getting rid of electronics stocks and shares of machine-tool companies and others likely to be damaged by repeal of the 7% investment-tax credit. The glamour stocks have dropped much more than the blue chips; Fairchild Camera, Doug las Aircraft, Xerox, Motorola, and oth ers have come down 50% or more from their year's highs. Such declines have...
Johnny One-Note. From the same podium, Hubert Humphrey asked: "Who is the opposition candidate? Who was it who called federal aid [to education] 'a tool of tyranny'? Who was it who said, 'It is a strange paradox, with our complete tradition of individual freedom, parents being forced to educate children'? Who was it who called California's elderly citizens and children and the maimed and the handi capped receiving welfare payments 'a faceless mass waiting for handouts...
When the two artists arrived at West Berlin's Borsig machine-tool factory to use the company's huge cutting and welding facilities, they were met with scorn. "We start work at 6:45 a.m.," the factory hands pointedly declared, fully expecting them to saunter in each day at noon. But German Sculptress Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff and her husband, Martin Matschinsky, are made of sterner stuff. Up each day at 5 o'clock, they continued working long after everyone else had gone home. Six months later, the commission-a 16-ft. stainless-steel sculpture-was completed...
Only a law suit got the certification back-on a temporary basis. Meanwhile the airline lost $53.8 million, and finally 16 airplanes were repossessed. Disgusted with the outlook, the Hughes Tool Co., owned by Howard Hughes, last year sold its controlling interest to Storer Broadcasting Co. of Miami...