Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past decade, 7 million small investors have pulled their money out of Wall Street and spent it on real estate, gold or simply a new mink coat. Over half of today's market is dominated by professional investors representing pension funds, insurance companies or mutual funds. They have better financial backing and are far less likely to take a flyer than were their predecessors. As a result, the market is less fun but more stable...
Under the best of circumstances, the exchange floor contains the makings of enough ulcers and coronaries to fill a good-sized hospital. By noon Wednesday, the circumstances were close to the worst ever. "Better get down here," one broker telephoned a friend. "We're going to break some records today...
...TRIFFIN: "Controlling the money supply is the best way to fight a recession," says this international money expert. "Certainly, initially, if we are to brake inflation, there will be some difficult periods to go through. The sooner, the faster we do it, the less gradual approach we adopt, the better chance we have to succeed, to turn the corner. I am very encouraged that part of Volcker's approach is an attempt to deal also with the problems posed by the Eurocurrency market. He emphasized more than before the rate of money supply growth on this market, rather than...
...Gideon, who chose to fight with an army of 300 dedicated men rather than 22,000 fainthearts, seems to apply as well. If a tough policy on celibacy and against freeing priests from their vows means fewer priests, says one Vatican source, then "they are likely to be better priests...
...compared with what a good businessman could have realized from Edison's inventions. Part of the reason for Edison's failure to capitalize on his own ideas was his fanatic resistance to any attempts to modify them. He insisted for too long that his cylinders made better recording devices than the more practical discs, and, because he had worked with direct current, he fought the introduction of alternating current. He gave demonstrations in which stray dogs were electrocuted with jolts of A.C. to dramatize a nonexistent threat to the safety of humans...