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Word: bearishness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faltering buyout of UAL, the parent of United Airlines, combines with signs of a new burst of inflation to put stock prices into a spin. The drop rekindles concerns that a debt-laden era might be coming to grief and provokes fears of a bearish season ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 134, No. 17 OCTOBER 23, 1989 | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...jumped almost 400%. Lebanese immigrant Naji Robert Nahas, who alone accounted for nearly half of the market's trades in recent weeks, brought Brazil's bulls to a halt last week after several brokerage houses discovered that $31 million of his checks had bounced on them. To avoid a bearish stampede, the Rio and Sao Paulo markets were forced to close last Monday. When trading resumed the next day, the benchmark I.B.V. index plunged 9% and ended the week down 32%. Nahas is a past master of shady finance: three years ago the U.S. Government fined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINANCIAL MARKETS: Rubber Checks On the Bourse | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

Where Mickey fails to draw us into the world of Russian court affairs, Adam Schwartz, as a vodka-guzzling, bearish Patiomkin duly succeeds. Schwartz is most endearing as the sotted-out relation to the Great Catherine. Everyone is "a darkbg" in Patiomkn's eyes, and Shwartz plays the part to the hilt, lavishing his fellow character with Leo Buscaglian hugs and kisses. When the English Captain Edstaston (Orion Ross) arrives on the scene to arrange an audience with the Great Catherine, Patiomkin dutifully obliges, throwing the Englishman on his back and literally dropping him off at the Empress's private...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Double Good, Double Pleasure | 4/14/1989 | See Source »

Scorsese is hardly a highly verbal filmmaker. His gift is to pack the equivalent of a thousand words of dialogue into a single elegant image. Life Lessons is about a bearish artist (Nick Nolte) whose reputation is currently bullish in chic circles but is distinctly on the decline as far as his lover assistant (Rosanna Arquette) is concerned. Both actors are excellent, as is Richard Price's script, which is taken from a passage in Dostoyevsky's life. But it is from the observation of simple things -- a slo-mo close-up of a cigarette being discarded, a brush slathering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Three's Company | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

...Election Day drew near, currency traders grew bearish on the dollar, sending it to the 125-yen range. They blamed a slowdown in the U.S. economy, the surge last month in the trade-deficit figures and a concern that the next U.S. President will be unable to tackle the budget deficit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CURRENCY: The Eagle Has Landed | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

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