Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...events make Wall Street squirm as much as a public investigation of its affairs. Last week, as the Securities and Exchange Commission opened a wide-ranging inquiry into the fees charged to stock investors, it began to look like a warm-under-the-collar summer for the New York and American Stock Exchanges. For the first time since such rates were devised in 1792, the markets must publicly defend a system of minimum commissions that the SEC contends is capricious and unfair...
...pursuing mutually exclusive goals. As he grants more power to workers, for example, he almost certainly will frighten away the investment capital that he needs to revitalize and modernize France's ailing economy. And by polarizing the French, he has tended to build higher and stronger the wall that separates his country into two hostile parts...
...begun in 1939. The results of the excavations led Pope Pius XII to announce in 1950 that the tomb of Peter had been discovered. Three years later, Professor Margherita Guarducci, who teaches Greek epigraphy and antiquities at the University of Rome, began studying the inscriptions on a red plaster wall inside which the skeletal remains had been found. "As soon as I saw the cloth remnants," says Dr. Guarducci, who is not a professional archaeologist, "I knew that these bones must have been important. The cloth was of rich purple material and was worked with pure gold. I went...
...Wall Street has already exceeded the 10 million-share days that only four years ago were forecast for 1975, is plagued by late tapes, overburdened facilities and overworked staffs. To catch up with the paperwork, stock exchanges now close one day a week, a condition that will probably continue at least through July...
...decade ago, Jewel Tea Co. consisted of little more than a chain of Chicago-area supermarkets. Then it began branching into other lines and locations. Renamed the Jewel Companies, it has grown into a diverse, sprawling operation that Wall Street analysts now call a "retail conglomerate." Only too happy to shed the food-chain label, Jewel President Donald S. Perkins, 41, prefers to think of his new-look company as a general merchandiser serving "whatever needs the consumer may have...