Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whatever happens to interest rates will have an impact on Wall Street. The stock market's bull market of 1982 was set off when the Open Market Committee voted last August to ease Committee policy, and the market has been reacting nervously to rumors of higher rates. Investor fears that Fed tightening would boost interest levels caused the Dow Jones industrial average to drop 14.92 points last week, to close at 1192. The Reagan Adminstration, which fears that tight money could brake the recovery, has been making some clumsy attempts to influence the Federal Reserve's policy...
...June IBM Chairman Opel announced that 1983 results were outstripping last year's. That helped push up the price of IBM stock, a leader in the eleven-month-old Wall Street bull rally. After years of hardly moving, IBM shares have nearly doubled in price since the rally started, climbing from 62% last August to close last week...
...finance caused by huge debts in developing countries have been adding strength to the notion of keeping Paul Volcker on the job. In the financial community Volcker is regarded as something of a demigod because he brought down inflation, strengthened the dollar and set the stage for the euphoric bull market in stocks that began last August. Nearly 80% of 702 executives polled by the investment firm A.G. Becker Paribas gave their vote of confidence to Volcker, with Alan Greenspan a distant second at 5.8%. Monetarist Milton Friedman got only 5.5%, Treasury Under Secretary Sprinkel 2.5%, and Fed Vice Chairman...
Names conjured more romance then. Jess Willard was the Pottawatomie Giant. Georges Carpentier was the Orchid Man. Luis Angel Firpo, the Argentine, was the Wild Bull of the Pampas. Those were Dempsey's great foes. Knocked clear through the ropes by Firpo in the second round, Dempsey came back to floor the Wild Bull an eighth, ninth and tenth time...
...Broderick looks no more than 17. Fierstein, who was the star as well as the author, kept telling him to hurry his lines. Broderick resisted, and the two yelled and fought. "Harvey used to push me against the wall - he's strong as a bull - but it freed me up a lot as an actor to play against him. He has a nice freedom on stage." Says Fierstein: "You couldn't get him to rush a line. He had to do it his way. That's his star quality. He is a complete and total personality." Indeed...