Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like them, be lured back into the market? Perhaps, but the process will take years. Doubtless, stock prices will have their upswings in forthcoming years, and those that take the Dow average above the magic 1000 mark may stir some temporary excitement. But the essential condition for a sustained bull market is a long and strong economic advance, during which inflation simmers down well below its present rate of roughly 6%. How to produce that ideal combination is the central unresolved question of modern economics...
...year on the throne, they enjoyed one of their favorite royal pastimes: practicing at Hussein's private shooting range-and laying bets on the outcome. So far, they are at a draw, but Constantine is rounding into top form. During one match, he pumped six rounds into the bull's-eye, which prompted Hussein to fire off a shot of his own. Asked he: "Are you sure your name isn't Dirty Harry...
...power in Washington. In Mexico, he told an airport gathering that U.S. officials would be "coming down and doing more listening" than in the past. The response was overwhelmingly enthusiastic. As Jamaica's Governor-General Florizel Glasspole told Young: "With Africa, you've scored many a bull's-eye. It's given the U.S. a new look in the eyes of the world...
...years earlier. At Beame's request, stores, banks and most offices closed, reducing traffic on the city's streets. At the intersection of Park Avenue and 79th Street in Manhattan, an athletic young man wearing a cape and holding a pink flare controlled traffic like a matador handling a bull. On the other side of the island, traffic was directed on Riverside Drive by David Epstein, 17 He joked: "My mother told me to go out and play in the traffic, and here I am." Sixteen passers-by turned Coney Island's 150-ft.-high Wonder Wheel by hand, enabling...
...Niro means "busy" as in "workaholic." Well before shooting The Deer Hunter, he was doing roadwork and punching bags in preparation for his role in Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull, a film about Fighter Jake La Motta to be shot next year. For The Deer Hunter, the story of a friendship among five steelworkers that is interrupted by the Viet Nam War, he spent six weeks tramping about in the Ohio River Valley, talking with mill hands and recording their speech patterns, drinking with them in bars and eating dinner in their homes. If it were possible, De Niro...