Word: equal
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...they have been investing in so-called money-market funds, which buy short-term securities such as 90-day Treasury bills and pay fat dividends of at least 12%. In the past year, the assets of those funds have swelled from $10.9 billion to $45 billion, which is nearly equal to the assets of the great mutual funds...
...forgone sales. The strike helped convert a slender 1978 profit of $5.9 million on sales of $2.7 billion into a 1979 loss that may exceed $9 million. The most heavily debt-burdened of the companies, Uniroyal is also dragging around a $520 million unfunded vested pension liability, which is equal to more than 80% of its net worth...
...long-and medium-frequency ultraviolet rays. Unlike the infra-red sun lamps used at home, these lights give off very little heat. Doctors have long used them to treat serious skin conditions; the franchisers have merely put them in tanning booths. One minute under the lamps is said to equal an hour in the summer sun; sometimes ten visits are needed before the "sun worshiper" starts sporting that January-in-Acapulco look. Customers may wear a bathing suit or take their rays in the buff...
...fetching in his work is not just its titles, which are antic (who could not be charmed by a pair of boughs, their twiggish arms laid over each other, called Cuddling Branches?), but its unpretentious dialogue with natural shape, which Nash treats not as raw material but as an equal partner in conspiracy. Chorus Line (Three Dandy Scuttlers), 1976, strikes a fine balance between whimsy-the flurried vaudevillian movement of the wooden legs-and presence, for there is something edgy and insect-like about these funny apparitions: they are cousins to the bugs and beasties that swarm...
...imaginative new TV commercials. The ads, which Mobil politely calls "fables for now," feature dancers and mimes masquerading as animals to make Mobil's points. Three stations have banned the ads altogether, and at least one-consumer group-Washington-based Energy Action-says it may ask for equal time from the 54 stations that are running them...