Word: turned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...useful activity for poor children who have no other resort in summer than the streets. Superintendent of Schools John W. Letson points out that the old school-year structure was developed in a rural past. In an urban society, he says, "it does not seem like good planning to turn all the children loose at the same time...
...forced by in creasing costs plus dwindling odd-lot trading, which now amounts to less than 10.7% of the Big Board's volume. Other merger plans have undoubtedly been hastened by the tendency of small investors in a declining market to with draw from direct trading and turn their business over to mutual funds and other professional investment management services (see following story). A great deal of Wall Street's retrenching involves firms that rely on retail brokerage for much of their revenue. So far this year, Manhattan-based H. Hentz & Co. has closed five...
...bank's analysts handle more than 11,000 personal and institutional investment accounts, each of which usually must have a minimum of $200,000. Portfolio managers service the proverbially helpless richman's widow as well as the young business-school graduate who uses his M.B.A. training to turn the modest old family firm into a gold mine. Real estate experts on the bank's 1,200-man staff will advise on matters like buying a villa on the Mediterranean. The bank also lends money for many investments. Altogether, the company charges the usual brokerage commission plus advisory...
...will be plugged. U.S. Trust will undoubtedly find new gaps in the law and apply them for the enrichment of company and client alike. Meanwhile, there probably will be a strong growth in what Chairman Ammidon calls "the managing of money so that its owners will be free to turn their full attention to their own businesses." Not only will troubled markets and tighter tax laws make it harder for the amateur investor to turn a profit, but many of the new millionaires -or the merely affluent-will find that they do not have the time even...
...extreme form the notion that man is essentially good, noble and altruistic but is perverted from his true nature by bad authoritarian institutions. In spite of all evidence to the contrary-not just the obvious beastliness of the bourgeoisie, officials and police but the perfidy, cowardice, treachery that would turn up even among the comrades-Kropotkin continued to believe in the goodness of man. If everyone were like him, anarchism might have a chance. But few men like Peter Kropotkin grow on the family tree of man-a fact that Kropotkin himself never realized...