Word: business
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost embarrassing proportions for Wall Street during the bull markets of the past couple of years. As stock prices climbed and trading volume rose to unprecedented heights, brokerage commissions swelled to $5 billion a year, and six-figure in comes became commonplace among customers' men. Now the securities busi ness is mired in a painful recession. Caught between sharply rising costs and a sluggish volume of trading in the ner vous market, brokerage houses have closed scores of branch offices, laid off hundreds of workers and rushed into mergers to fight a flood...
Zambia's lengthy lifeline is only one of 89 major Bechtel projects currently under way in 29 states and 34 foreign countries. Bechtel has boosted its busi ness by an impressive average of 20% a year for the past ten years, passed the $1 billion mark in new contracts in 1967, and confidently expects $1.4 billion worth this year...
After Larnel's death the sponsoring Society in London had no more busi- ness with Harvard. It remained active, however--until, with the outbreak of the Revolution, Englishmen began to feel uneasy about saving the souls of native Americans. Consequently the foundation was dissolved...
...more determined exercisers who reported for our Essay is Boston Correspondent Bill Marmon, who three mornings a week at 7:15 takes off from his apartment near Harvard Square, jogs across the Charles River on the Weeks Me morial Footbridge, trots on to the Harvard Graduate School of Busi ness Administration, which is about halfway on his route. There he pauses for 30 pushups, 30 situps, and occasionally a dozen chin-ups on a convenient tree branch. Then he heads home, sprinting the last 200 yards to "make the blood flow into the fin gers and toes and lungs...
...outfit developed by doing busi ness with American companies, and their know-how has brushed off onto our shoulders," says Jose Mendoza Fer nandez, 42, director of Bufete Industri al, Mexico's leading engineering firm...