Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rather, he said, "the aim is to force takeover artists to be socially responsible" and block them from buying companies, laying off workers and then selling the companies piecemeal at big profits...
Later that afternoon at Dartmouth's Memorial Field, the Big Green football team was a mean, lean fighting machine. The defending Ivy champion Crimson committed six turnovers and fell, 38-7. Harvard's chances of finshing on top of the Ivy standings for the second year in a row were slim even before the game began...
...After Big Green running back David Clark set an Ivy League record by scoring on a 97-yd. touchdown run and wide receiver Craig Morton caught seven passes for 199 yards, those chances disappeared...
...Blue Devils outscored Harvard, 66-30, the rest of the way. But for those few minutes that Tuesday night at Briggs, the Crimson had excited the sellout crowd and challenged the big, bad visitors from the Harvard of the South...
...answer lies in the contrary way that economists have come to view the world during the long expansion of the 1980s. Instead of bemoaning the big leap in the number of unsuccessful job seekers, the experts cheered it as a sign of a slowdown that lessens the chance of a new burst of inflation. "No matter how bad the news," observes Pierre Rinfret, a Manhattan-based economic consultant, "the market will find something good in it." Just as the market, which seems to obey none of the usual rules, almost always manages to find something bad in the very best...