Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contrast, in a complete reversal of the situation only a decade ago, U.S. holdings abroad now total only $1.07 trillion. In addition to spurring fabulous hikes in real estate values and igniting corporate takeovers, the wave of foreign purchases has become an important force behind Wall Street's stratospheric bull market...
...science are gestating in the sink of their slum flat. They know their agents can give them just as short shrift by long distance. Perhaps a country visit will rescue their faith in the universe's orderliness. Well, they have reckoned without the rain, mud and chill. Or the bull in a neighbor's field. Or the queenly ardor of Withnail's Uncle Monty (a sweetly mad Richard Griffiths), who turns up to pursue his hopeless passion for "and I." Somehow, Wordsworth failed to mention these inconveniences...
...become the mother of the nation. Before the public ceremony, Mswati underwent secret initiation rites and took part in a series of exhausting ritual dances in full feathered regalia. At the coronation, tribal praise singers endlessly repeated his imposing chain of official titles, which include the Bull, Guardian of the Sacred Shields, the Inexplicable and the Great Mountain...
Every boom spawns its prophets of doom, and the current bull market is no exception. Right now the most visible naysayer is a previously little-known economics professor named Ravi Batra. His eye-catching book, The Great Depression of 1990, has jumped to No. 4 in its sixth week on the New York Times' nonfiction best-seller list. At $17.95 a copy, it has been snapped up by some 175,000 buyers who are either curious or concerned -- or both -- about just how high the current boom can go before it turns to bust...
BUSINESS: The bull market stampedes through a manic birthday celebration...