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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another prop under the surging market is the widespread expectation that the economy is likely to enjoy some further, though modest, expansion. The - business advance that began in late 1982, shortly after the birth of the bull market, is reaching late middle age by historic standards. Since World War II there has been only one, during the 1960s, that lasted longer. Nonetheless, the consensus among Government, business and stock-market economists is a prediction of slowly growing production, rising corporate profits, a fairly small increase in inflation and relatively stable interest rates at least through most of 1988. One somewhat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bang-Bang Birthday | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...poll, women candidates scored higher than men on such issues as - health care and education, but voters still preferred having men deal with trade and arms control. Americans least comfortable with women candidates: country folk and those over the age...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: A Woman's Place | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

Reginald Lewis had every reason to feel successful and satisfied. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he had founded the first black legal firm on Wall Street and enjoyed a six-figure income. But four years ago, at age 40, Lewis became bored with a lawyer's life. He decided to jump onto a faster track: the takeover game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buying Into the Big Time | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

Just as athletes grab their discuses and bobsleds to compete in age-old competitions every quadrennium, Harvard summer school students will this week unsheathe their pens, take their seats and hear some grad student shout their equivilent, "Let the Games Begin...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Let the Games Begin | 8/18/1987 | See Source »

...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question of Hume not by baffling the grader or fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Beating the System | 8/18/1987 | See Source »

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