Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dylan combines a reggae-influenced tune of nursery rhyme simplicity with typical crypticness. He rhymes himself all the way through the song, so by the last verse you are easily guessing the next line--"Looked like there was nothing he couldn't pull...aaah, so he called him a bull." Then Dylan gets to the verse about a snake. You know its about a snake because the animal slithers through grass and rhymes with lake. But Dylan stops there--with an oblique reference to the Garden of Eden--and doesn't say the word "snake...
Which is the smartest race on earth? Many nominate the Jews, whose intellectual achievements are out of proportion to their small numbers. C.P. Snow thinks the Japanese may be even brighter. Such musings are best muttered at late night bull sessions. In public, ranking races by intelligence is apt to smack of simple racism...
Given these factors, there may have to be quite a bit of pulling and hauling to get that bull market on its feet and charging hard. But optimists point to some fundamental trends that will be bracing for the market and may help stall the gold machine...
Other factors also contrive to make the market look fairly attractive. The last two bull markets started during recessions, after interest rates fell and investors began to sense recovery ahead. Also, stocks now are cheap. Corporate profits have almost doubled in the past four years, but many blue-chip stocks of big, old companies are selling at mid-1975 prices. The increasing number of corporate takeover bids suggests how undervalued they are. The Dow industrials are selling at 93% of book value, the worth of the assets minus the liabilities and divided by the number of shares outstanding. Thus...
...fairly strong bull market has been under way in the secondary stocks, including those of the smaller oil and gas companies, newer high-technology firms and takeover candidates. While the Dow has been languishing over the past four years - it was at 840 in September 1975 - the index of over-the-counter stocks has gone up 94% and the American Stock Exchange index has risen...