Word: bearishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...People ask me whether the stock market is bullish, bearish or confused. I think it's confused." -James Moltz, chairman of the Cyrus J. Lawrence brokerage firm
...female appointee to the Supreme Court. One could scarcely blame her, so dismal does this fantasy-based on a hit play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee-make life on the big bench seem. Jill Clayburgh plays the perky, conservative new lady in chambers; Walter Matthau is the bearish liberal Justice with whom she has a tastefully tentative comedy-romance that turns out to be neither very comic nor very romantic. Mostly they argue about things like pornography and corporate responsibility. These discussions are conducted at the high school civics-class level, and it must be said that Ronald...
Amid all this pitching, hawking and haggling stands Forss, a bearish, balding man with a neatly trimmed beard. His photographs rest on the sidewalk, propped against an available building. They do their own selling; Forss merely watches while passers-by stop to look. They see remarkable things: a velvety image of a contemplative black child, a serene study of a well-fed cat and an undernourished house plant. The much photographed Verrazano Bridge can be found in Forss's display, but this time with a small starburst of sunlight piercing one of its uprights. And, yes, there...
...year contract. It was announced last week that the Soviets will make an initial purchase of 100,000 metric tons each of corn and wheat. That, plus an influx of commercial buyers, has pushed farm prices up for almost all commodities. "I don't think you can be bearish on anything," says Howard Fisher, a Chicago Board of Trade broker...