Word: condemned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Front-End Loaders. The SEC did not by any means condemn all mutual funds, but centered its fire on the "contractual" funds, in which the investor signs up to buy regular monthly shares over a period of years. The commission, or "load," on mutual fund sales is typically 8.5%, plus a "custodian's fee" of 1% to 3%. What irked the SEC study group is that commissions commonly run to 50% during the first year of the so-called "front-end load" plans, in which more than 1,000,000 small investors have contracted to make monthly payments...
...could not have explored its unanswered moral questions with the subtlety it does without a performer like Paul Newman in the title role. It's easy to condemn sin: but it's not so easy to condemn the concrete, complex individual sinner. Newman makes Hud a man of charm and magnetism, a man difficult to dislike. Hud trades shamelessly on his personal attractiveness, but his shamelessness is a characteristic of his society as well as himself. Newman is letter-perfect, from his insolent walk to the mock-tough way he propositions the Bannon family maid. Even when Hud is silent...
Boehlich said his views represented prevailing public opinion within West Germany. They were not reflected in government policy because Adenauer's "blind anti-communism" and the undue influence of East German refugee groups, who condemn Ulbricht and refuse to recognize the division of Germany. Boehlich hopes for the eventual reunification of Germany, but declared, "A divided Germany is our reality, and we will have a united Europe only insofar as we recognize this reality...
...Vatican Council. He was the only cardinal from outside Rome who was given a suite of rooms inside the Vatican for the duration of the first session. Just as John kept away from the debates, Montini kept his own silence at the council, speaking out only once to condemn the conservative schema on the nature and authority of bishops in the church. He was also asked to celebrate the Pontifical Mass commemo ating John's fourth anniversary as Pope, and was the only non-Curia cardinal to see the Pope during his final illness...
...Warning. But Diem's intransigence troubled the U.S. In Saigon, U.S. embassy officials bluntly warned Diem that the U.S. would publicly condemn his treatment of the Buddhists unless he took prompt action to redress their grievances. Behind the U.S. threat was the fear that continued Buddhist discontent could cause passive resistance to government programs in the rural provinces where political unity is the key to victory in the war against the Communist Viet Cong...