Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...trade, and Touré's Comptoir Guinéen du Commerce Extérieur, the state-owned trading agency, is so deep in debt that prohibitive taxes are being levied on oil companies to rake up new funds. In fact, Toure's treasury is so strapped for cash that it has not even been able to keep its commitments to its Communist barter partners, has vainly sought loans from private French banks...
...into double negatives when excited. Sample, on religion: "I think there is no religious revival at all. Fra Angelico kneeled to the Madonna because he was going to paint her, and she was his God. We don't kneel down to nothing any more, not even to a cash register...
...also a boon to the employee, says Devine. When a frozen-food distributor called in Devine to find out who was pilfering $1,000 worth of food each month, the losses stopped immediately. Result: management gave raises, boosted starting pay $10 a week. In another case when $42 in cash disappeared from a service station, the three attendants voluntarily asked Devine for a lie-detector test. Devine said they were honest, sent them back to the job. A few days later a customer returned the money, saying he had mistaken the manager's bank...
COMPUTER CENTERS for small businessmen will be set up on a nationwide basis by National Cash Register Co. Operating much like the big photo labs that develop film for amateurs, the centers will process daily records for small retailers, industrial and commercial firms, return complete analyses within 24 hours. First three centers will open in Manhattan, Los Angeles, Dayton...
...baby food has started an infant epidemic. Will Lord quit under fire, as he has done before, and slink off to accept a college presidency? In providing the unimportant answer to this unimportant question, Novelist Hawley shows that he has refined his prose technique since Executive Suite and Cash McCall; the tedium of his narrative's implacable forward progress is now unrelieved by any fresh thought or phrase, or even by a friendly old cliché. The business world is a valid and fascinating locale for fiction, and Lincoln Lord spouting ghostwritten eloquence is a recognizable type...