Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...argument among investors and market watchers is whether they are witnessing just a brief spurt or a true second leg on the bull market that would take the averages even higher. John Paulus, the chief economist for Morgan Stanley, the investment banking house, had a note of caution. Said he: "The economy still has a good deal of upward momentum, which will have to be moderated by rising interest rates at some point. The gross national product rose 8.8% in the first half of the year and is now moving ahead at between 4% and 5%. That is still...
...candidate receives a majority in the first vote (2,501 to 1,253). The intensity of black feeling over the dual-primary issue was demonstrated in almost brutal fashion when Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young spoke against the Jackson plank. Other black delegates booed and shouted throughout Young's brief speech. "You damn turncoat!" screamed one black delegate. "Uncle Tom!" cried another. Sweating profusely, Young looked shaken as he left the podium...
When she stepped onstage Monday afternoon for a women's political fund raiser, and the next morning at a women's caucus, she was received like a feminist superheroine, history incarnate. At the morning caucus session of 2,000 female delegates and alternates, she kept her remarks brief and understated, as she did in all of her joint appearances with Mondale. Yet, in five minutes the audience whooped and applauded ten times and chanted, "Gerry, Gerry, Gerry." Said she: "I need you. We all need each other." By remarkable coincidence, Ferraro's birthday...
...appeal of the Olympics centers on individual heroes, yet heroism in the Games is lightweight; it bears none of the mythic armor of professional sports. With professional athletes, allegories develop with the records; Mantle was pain, Unitas skill, Ali poetry and power. The Olympic Games are too brief for spectators to construct a folklore. Personalities like Nadia float to the top for a few days, but only as they are attached to performances. The hero and the act are one. If an allegorical hero is to be found in the Games, it is youth in general. A time of life...
...President, would you like to go skiing with me?" Truthfully, Italian President Sandro Pertini, 87, does not like skiing much. But the caller was an old and persuasive friend, Pope John Paul II, 64. So last week, by government jet and helicopter, the two were off for a brief ski trip and, said the Pope, "a little fresh air" on the slopes of the Adamello mountain range (which had been considerately cleared of other tourists). Sportily dressed in blue pants and windbreaker, sunglasses and red boots, John Paul made his first known ski outing since becoming Pope six years...