Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thermometer read 10° F as 3,000 teachers gathered last week in Chicago's downtown Daley Center to jeer at politicians, bankers and the insolvent Chicago board of education. On one demonstrator's placard was a photograph of Mayor Jane Byrne ringed menacingly by a bull's-eye target. Snapped a teacher: "I'm too angry to feel the cold." Others were out in the cold too: the city's 473,000 public school students. With most of their teachers taking part in what the 26,000-member Chicago Teachers Union called a "constructive...
What could kill January's newborn bull? Analysts fear that another leap upward in inflation could all too easily force the Administration to reconsider its refusal to impose wage and price controls; such a move, or even the threat of it, would discombobulate business so badly as to frighten away investors. Likewise, further inflation could force the Federal Reserve to push up interest rates further and thus deepen the recession that even the Administration is now forecasting for this year. That in turn could cut into corporate profits and send stock prices tumbling. Last week, in fact, a momentary...
...that, Wall Streeters are beginning to echo a certain heady confidence that the sorry 1970s had seemed to drain away almost entirely. Says Wall Street's Lurie: "I think people in this business have forgotten just how much fun a bull market really is. To me, all those rationalizations not to invest are pointless. We've come through ten years of bad times, this is an election year, the start of the 1980s, a big era, and it's going to be a big market...
Rating rock: Rolling Stone scores some bull's-eyes from...
...great many surprises here. The good guys (Springsteen, Dylan, the Who) win; the bad guys (from Black Sabbath and the Tubes to Mac Davis and Kenny Rogers) are pumped full of holes. The contributors may be quick to shoot from the hip, but they score a fair share of bull's-eyes. "Limpid 'adult bubblegum' rockers" seems about right for Crosby, Stills and Nash, while Marsh gives fast, passionate rundowns on Elvis or a great band like Creedence Clearwater Revival...