Word: professed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Swinging with the Smart. The technicians practice Wall Street's most ar cane - some are unkind enough to say inane - art. In deciding whether to buy or sell a stock, the purists among them profess to care less about such fundamentals as a company's assets, its earnings, its management or even what it does. Instead, the chartists divine the fu ture of a stock by poring over a dis play of its past performance. The zigs and zags may ignore the fundamental "facts," but more important, technicians argue, the charts reflect what the mar ket knows...
...remarkably candid about the pressures that he faces from Portugal's archconservative military and landowners on one side and the restless liberals on the other. "We have sought to create a political climate free from hatred or retaliations that will permit normal relations between those who profess different opinions," said Caetano...
...international trade for a generation has been the flow of U.S. corporate capital to Europe. From $1.7 billion in 1950, it grew last year to $20 billion. The cash has not only fueled much of the postwar European boom but has created controversy among Europeans, particularly in France, who profess worry about an American economic "takeover...
Actually, her choice of Onassis may well represent a distillation of many desires. Onassis is a man of considerable magnetism. Some of his friends profess to see him as part Alexander the Great (for whom he probably named his son), part a Hellenic Great Gatsby. He is iron-willed, infinitely considerate of his women, vain of his limitless ability to charm, entertain and protect those whom he likes or loves...
...sought to do away with denominational differences. The founder was the Rev. Thomas Campbell, a Presbyterian minister from Pennsylvania who wanted to unite all men on a few basics of belief. Christianity, he argued, is "essentially and constitutionally one church made up of all those in every place who profess their faith in Jesus Christ...