Word: shared
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Farewell, Cities. With Election Day just five weeks off, few Democrats share Bobby Kennedy's certainty of victory. Although the professionals exude the usual public confidence, many politicians in both parties are privately jittery and uncertain about the outcome. All the current polls show Kennedy and Nixon running neck and neck, with as much as 25% of the electorate still undecided on how to vote. Even in traditionally "safe" states, the margin of safety is uncomfortably close, and neither party can breathe easily. Nixon's claim on California is as shaky as Kennedy's on North Carolina...
Last week, in the bluntest language yet employed in public, the U.S. told its economic partners that the time has tome when they have got to take on their share of helping other nations, above all the newly independent countries, where continued political independence depends on economic stability and growth. The U.S. spoke out in Washington at the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the two agencies that together comprise a board of trustees for the capitalist system...
...Loew's chief stockholder (he served as chairman of the executive committee before becoming company chairman and chief executive last month), he has cut costs and improved business so much that the firm's earnings will be up 33% this year over last, to about $1 a share...
...mergers, stock splits and diversification. The reason: the boom in textbooks for the burgeoning U.S. school population, which is lifting many a once staid, privately owned publishing house into the heady world of big business. Last week two large, old-line publishers announced mergers aimed at increasing their share of the new textbook market...
...firm has signed over 2,000 contracts for new textbooks in the past few years. But it has paid off: last week Powers announced that Prentice-Hall profits this year will be up 17% on sales of $50 million, with 1960's earnings to be 87? per share v. 74? last year. Another key to the success of prestigious Prentice-Hall, founded in 1913 by two absent-minded professors: it takes virtually no gambles on fiction, puts out mostly textbooks and business publications...