Word: bets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rowan and Martin's TV Laugh-In domesticated chaos into snippets. It flashed absurdities, like vaudeville on amphetamines -- Goldie Hawn dancing in body paint, Tiny Tim tiptoeing through the tulips. Laugh-In gave the nation "You bet your sweet bippy!" and "Sock it to me!" a line that Republican Candidate Richard Nixon, among other celebrities, recited in three seconds of network time in September. (In deference to his dignity, Nixon was spared the customary dousing with a bucket of water.) The Rolling Stones snarled about the Street Fighting Man. Never before had an annus mirabilis transpired before the television cameras...
...surge in exports and a drop in imports. If that happens, less domestic consumer spending will be needed to keep the economy healthy. "There is a risk of recession in 1988," concedes Lawrence Chimerine, chairman of the WEFA econometric forecasting firm in Bala- Cynwyd, Pa. "But my bet is we'll just scrape past it." Not exactly optimism, yet with the year off to a sputtering start, it will have...
...like every other investor, large or small, during the historic crash. He thought about his mother, who lived through 1929 and "always said you should never own stocks." He wondered, "Maybe this is the start of the real thing." Most of all, he thought of the people who had bet on him, though he had always told them up front that in any downturn, Magellan would do worse than the market. Then Lynch, who had been earning between $2 million and $3 million a year, began thinking about his own finances. He felt relieved that the money for his three...
...stoned, blindfolded two teenagers and tied them to the hoods of their jeeps. On Wednesday night Israelis were horrified by television footage of a man in civilian clothes firing an Uzi submachine gun into a crowd of rock-throwing Palestinians. He was later identified as an agent of Shin Bet, Israel's internal-security service. The agent will reportedly be disciplined, but officials appeared less upset by the act itself than by the fact that it was captured on film. At week's end the trouble spread to East Jerusalem, where mobs of Palestinian youths rioted through the streets. Israeli...
Afterward the weary opponents shook hands and stayed onstage for several minutes discussing the game. But the two Ks' show is hardly over. In 1990 the glasnost man must defend his title. His opponent? Don't bet against the dour "apparatchik...