Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decided on the "Pit Bull" defense. Like pit bulls, the Harvard defenders gave it their all. Like pit bulls, they struck fear into the hearts of the Yale offense, making it burn timeouts. Like pit bulls, they beat up on the Bulldogs...
...been planning to issue new stock or for young firms hoping to go public, the impact of the Black Monday crash was immediate and devastating. Many were forced to put their plans on hold until stock prices rise substantially, and they faced the unsettling possibility that a renewed bull market might not occur anytime soon...
...market was capable of a one- day, 508-point drop on Black Monday, Oct. 19, who could say what it might do next? Some seers thought they knew, yet their conclusions were as contradictory as they were passionate. "We are out of the woods!" proclaimed a bull, Michael Metz, an analyst for Oppenheimer & Co. "The house is on fire. Stay out!" declared a bear, Jay Goldinger, a Beverly Hills financial adviser. "There's no reason to go back in and be a hero," he added...
Many portfolio managers who became stars during the bull market emerged from the crash notably tarnished. George Soros, 57, who until Black Monday was regarded as one of the canniest investors in Wall Street history, saw his Quantum Fund drop some 36%, to $1.67 billion. Other stars emerged overnight. Elaine Garzarelli, 36, a research analyst and fund manager for Shearson Lehman Bros., had emphatically predicted a collapse exactly one week before Black Monday in an interview on Cable News Network. Her stock fund, the Sector Analysis Portfolio, reportedly gained 5% during the week of the crash because Garzarelli had moved...
...latest show one would always feel eager to see. Susan Rothenberg is high on the list. At 42 she has survived the cultural gorge-and-puke of the early '80s, the manic starmaking and the pressure on immature talent -- all due, presumably, to wither in the hangover from the bull market. Rothenberg's anxious but unhurried cast of mind was somehow fortified in the pressure cooker. Her current show at New York City's Sperone Westwater gallery (through Nov. 14) is in some respects her best...