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Word: lessened (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...periods. For selling a put or call the stockholder receives a premium ranging from $112.50 on 100 shares and up, depending on the price of the stock and length of the option. Usually those who sell puts and calls offer them at different prices and for varying periods, thus lessen the chances of loss when options are exercised. "This," says Filer, "produces the same effect as an insurance company insuring thousands of houses against fire." With many options, the odds favor the seller, and he can receive enough premiums in one year to provide a fat return on his stocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Put, Call & Win | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Scheduling difficulties, distribution and concentration requirements can prevent students, especially science majors, from taking a given course, but such problems do not necessarily lessen his interest in the subject. More lectures, like MacLeish's, not requiring any specific preparation, would give the student a wider opportunity to participate in areas of concentration other than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Talk | 10/30/1959 | See Source »

...present program bans night parking of those vehicles in the area of the old House Squash Courts to lessen the noise near Kirkland, Winthrop and Eliot. As a compensation, the new lot, parking in which will cost a nominal fee, is to be built...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Cold Inconvenience | 10/20/1959 | See Source »

...years past such a made-to-order opportunity to spread dissension would have brought the Soviets galloping to the scene with hot pronunciamentos and threats. And, in fact, Moscow did nothing to lessen Asian strains last week by sending a bristling note to London accusing the British of trying to draw neutral Cambodia "under foreign influence." But at the height of last week's festivities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Upside Down | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...mullet) were boiling along the surface, and that stripers might be right behind. At no time did Oscar go more than ankle deep into the surf-believing, with his kind, that it is sinful for man to disturb the striper's water. He scorns newfangled reels that would lessen the challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Stalker | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

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