Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...searching for hints about the market's future also rely on a P/E statistic: the composite ratio of the 30 blue-chip stocks in the Dow Jones industrial average. Since the 1930s this figure has gone below 10 only during severe bear markets, and above 20 only in overexuberant bull markets. Its post-Depression peak was 24.2 in September 1961, shortly before a disastrous market break. It declined from 18 or 19 for several years in the early and mid-1960s to 15.7 a year ago and has increased only to 16.7 now. This is on the low side...
Today, more than 5,000,000 British enthusiasts are pitching at the pug (bull's-eye), and darting claims more participants than any other game in the sports-mad land. Thus when some upstart Yanks recently challenged the vaunted British there was open scorn in London pubs. "It's like snooker," sniffed one expert. "You figure that the best in Britain are the best in the world." Mrs. Jacqueline Eagan, 44, one of three American team members who survived an elimination tournament among 5,000 of the U.S.'s top tossers, figured differently: "We expect to beat...
Brown's surging defensive line upset the rhythm of the Yardling offense all afternoon, trapping Crimson bull carriers eight times for 41 yards in losses and being largely responsible for Harvard's consistently poor field position...
...Alioto believes that he has been through the worst of it. As enthusiastic and outgoing as ever, the bull-shouldered son of a Sicilian-born fisherman hopes that his political fortunes are back where they were in 1968, when he delivered the nominating speech for Presidential Candidate Hubert Humphrey, was briefly considered for the vice-presidential nomination and was widely regarded as one of the party's rising new talents. "I don't come from a wailing tradition," Alioto says. "We take life as it is. It is a tough life, and we know it is. They have...
Revenue sharing is a bunch of bull and a mass of red tape...