Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...December 2, 1998: Buffeted by a bull market and a strong economy, Harvard announced that it would add $95 million of endowment money to its operating budget for 1999. With the increase, the endowment payout moved closer to its traditional 4.5 percent, up from a historic low of 3.3 percent...
...Mager even earned the affectionate nickname "Crash Davis" from his coaches, after Kevin Costner's character in the baseball classic "Bull Durham...
...team were going to miss play-offs, Madison Square Garden president Dave Checketts demoted longtime general manager Ernie Grunfeld, who had brought in Sprewell as well as the league's largest payroll. This was partly to appease Van Gundy, who was feuding with Grunfeld. Then Checketts met with ex-Bull coach Phil Jackson about taking Van Gundy's job next year. At last week's clinching game against Atlanta, fans chanted Van Gundy's name in a defiant gesture of support. He needs it. The guy looks like the most bitter and broken-down thirtysomething not to have worked...
...never been a better time to attempt to trade for a living. The opportunities for short-term profits in the stock market, given the new wild swings we have seen, can't be dismissed as unworthy or foolish. That hasn't been true for most of this 17-year bull market, when only wacky, thin, corrupt or heavily shorted stocks jumped enough to make a short-term triumph possible. And for most of that period, commissions were so high that they ate into those gains for all but the biggest traders, who got discounts from their brokerage firms...
...give you a reason. Because it's hard--really hard--to get the direction right, even with all that great info and terrific execution. We have enjoyed the bull market of a lifetime, one that has seen the Dow go up more than 8,000 points, and yet every day thousands of issues go down or disappear or blow up. And while you hear periodically of the day trader who earns enough to retire, you don't hear about them any more than you do about lottery winners...