Word: within
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intently watched the graphs. Abie's pulse quickened from a normal 140 beats per second to 175 during acceleration. But for Abie's nine long minutes of weightlessness, her pulse was normal and steady. Under the 38-g stress of reentry, it rose to 222-high, but within acceptable bounds...
...slugged hostile critics and hurled eggs against the wall on impulse. He alternated between exhausting stretches of work and months-long alcoholic bouts. But as an artist he believed in being both cool and controlled, recommended billiards as a fine training for any beginner. "On that green surface and within that frame." Carles said, "he will find the equilibrium, symmetry, triangulation, direction, motion and restraint...
Blough streamlined the legal department, went on to important roles in labor negotiations, financing, a hundred other tasks. Within ten years he had scrambled through the corporate hierarchy so fast that when Ben Fairless shifted over from president to chairman in 1952, a special post of vice chairman was created for Blough and he became, in Fairless' words, "my right bower." Three years later, when Fairless retired, it was a foregone conclusion that Blough would be the new boss...
...fight inflation is to cut prices, starting with steel. He cites the fact that U.S. Steel cut prices $1.25 a ton in 1948 when inflation had pushed living costs up 14.5% the year before. Costs kept climbing so fast that the price cut had to be canceled within three months. Says Blough: "The problem isn't prices; it's costs...
...example, are locked in institutional portfolios. Companies are reluctant to float more because of heavy taxes. Daimler-Benz has 93% of its stock in the hands of institutions and other companies; in the past month, buyers of small amounts of floating stock propelled the price from $243 to $363 within ten days...