Word: wilding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After stops in Zaire (where he came down with a stomach ache after feasting on wild boar and manioc leaves), Liberia and Senegal, Kissinger returns this week to Nairobi for the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development. There he will announce formation of an International Resources Bank to finance development of raw materials. Earlier, Kissinger pledged $200 million to the International Fund for Economic Development...
...most popular paths to corporate growth during the surging '60s was acquisition of other companies. The more firms an aggressive company gobbled up, the more investors it attracted and the higher the price of its stock soared. Ambitious company chiefs issued securities of inflated value to buy up wildly diverse businesses and paste them together into massive conglomerates. But many of these structures fell apart because of the collapse of stock prices in 1969 and the bouts of wild inflation and deep recession that marred the early 1970s. From almost 4,000 in 1969, the number of acquisitions fell...
Whatever the motivation, the episode reflects no credit on Rocky. Not since the worst days of Joe McCarthy has a prominent Washington official taken such a wild swing at other public servants. "It is amazing how quickly the atmosphere of the 1950s can return," mused Fosdick. "All of a sudden, here I am, answering call after call from the press, asking if I or anyone else on the staff is a Communist. And here we are trying to defend ourselves. But it's not up to us to disprove these charges. It's up to Rockefeller to substantiate...
...Brando: The Wild One and On the Waterfront, Friday and Saturday...
...figures point to a healthy, not wild recovery-but do contain a promise of further acceleration in the months to come. The fast pace of consumer spending and sales is keeping businessmen from rebuilding the inventories they slashed deeply last year. If sales stay strong, retailers will have to step up their orders for new goods to rebuild stockpiles so that they do not run out of items that customers want to buy. Result: production increases later this year that will be larger than expected...