Word: two
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certificates and mortgage-backed securities, that are designed to keep banks and thrift institutions flush with funds for home loans. Says Okun: "Money is easy but expensive, and nobody is saying no to any borrower. They're saying, 'The price is high. Won't you take two...
...Hamelin chasing the Pied Piper, investors last week continued rushing to put their paper money into hard goods. Gold scaled yet another peak on the London exchange: $397 per oz., almost double a year ago. Prices soared for platinum and silver, and even copper that was 81? per Ib. two months ago sold...
...taken off your glasses!" Nowadays, it is likely to be a Ms. who is doing the noticing. The woman boss, once a corseted cliche in man-tailored suits, has begun to win a reputation for eying the boys in the office. That is the conclusion of a study by two U.C.L.A. psychologists, Barbara Gutek and Charles Nakamura, called "Sexuality and the Workplace." Men, they report, have joined women as victims of sexual harassment...
Though quasi-journalistic sidelines account for 15% of U.P.I. revenues, most of the proceeds from the sale of stock will go toward improving news coverage, and competition with A.P. should heighten. "We feel strongly that the country needs two vital news services," says Beaton. Alas, U.P.I. last week was unable to upstage its rival on one major story, though it definitely had the edge on inside information. Because of a Securities and Exchange Commission rule that prohibits a company from advertising a stock offering, U.P.I. could not report news of its forthcoming partnership sale...
Long the fat matron of Montreal's once powerful English-speaking minority, the Star consistently outsold its morning rival, the Gazette (circ. 168,000), which was founded in 1778 and is owned by the Southam chain (the Ottawa Citizen and 13 other Canadian dailies). But over the past two decades, Toronto has gradually displaced Montreal as the nation's leading city. English-speaking Montrealers began moving out in even larger numbers after René Lévesque's secession-minded Parti Québecois won control of Quebec in 1976. For a while, the Star weathered that...