Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Haig, the White House chief of staff, instructed Presidential Aide Steve Bull to stop recording the precise times of Nixon's movements. The yacht Sequoia became Nixon's favorite refuge as his prospects blackened; his enemies could be left behind as he headed down the Potomac. Perhaps that is why the President was so enraged when he found the hated newsmen and photographers waiting at the Anacostia River dock when he drove up and when he sailed back in. "Get the goddam press out of here," he would say. He wondered out loud to David Eisenhower whether...
Particulars of My Life is not a no-one-understood-me confessional, as one-might expect from one who has been an intellectual bull's-eye for both the political right and left for so long. In fact, the traditional autobiographer's tools of the trade are completely lacking from this book. There are no crucial turning points, guiding-light ideals, or thematic "periods" of his life, and certainly no emotional traumas to scar the boy for life. (Skinner's only apparent reference to psychoanalysis is a dig at Freud while he describes an after school pastime--crawling into...
...growing interest of investors in dividends contrasts sharply with the atmosphere of the bull market of the '60s. Professional money managers then concentrated on price appreciation and ignored dividend yields. The star performers of those days-Xerox, Polaroid and other so-called glamor issues-paid little in dividends, yet held out the promise of higher profits and prices in the future. Now the high flyers' wings have been clipped and such laws as the Pension Reform Act of 1974 mandate a new prudence among managers who invest other people's money. Dozens of "index fund" managers...
...rest of the lightweight matches, Harvard's hopes to build an early lead were fulfilled. Milt Yasunaga (126 lbs.) triumphed, 5-3, in a hard-fought match. Bull Mulvihill (134 lbs.) fell behind, 4-2, narrowly escaped being pinned, then rallied...
...generally agree that the market has at least some limited power to propel the economy. The effect is partly practical: rising share prices enable a company to use its stock to make acquisitions, or sell new shares to get cash to expand. But the biggest lift is psychological. A bull market puts executives in an expansive mood, as the worth of their stock options goes up, and raises the morale of employees, who see the value of their stake in pension funds increase. Consumers who own stock directly or through mutual funds feel richer. If they do not have ready...