Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chairman of the Psychology and Social Relations Department Sheidon H. White said that although students will be required in take courses in a variety of departments, computer science will constitute the bull of the interdiscplinary instruction. He said...
Nonetheless, the sharp run-ups persuaded many experts that the long-awaited second leg of the bull market was at hand. Since surging 64% to 1258.51 between August 1982 and July 1983, the Dow Jones average has been drifting. After an 87.5-point leap during a single week last August, the index finished 1984 in the 1200 range. Analysts last week were confident that the next move would be up. "The Dow will hit 1300 before it sees 1200 again," predicted Peter Furniss, senior vice president for Shearson Lehman/ American Express. David Jones, chief economist for Aubrey G. Lanston...
...record volume of 23.1 billion shares, a 6.9% increase over 1983. Stock prices, though, declined for the first time in three years. The Dow Jones industrial average closed on New Year's Eve at 1211.57, a drop of 47 points, or 3.7%, from 1983. Last year had begun with bull-market bravura that sent the Dow to a peak of 1286.64 on Jan. 6, less than a point below the alltime high. But the market bounced downhill for the next six months and, despite a boisterous rally in August, never made a full comeback...
...accept a ban on such weapons in northern Europe. But his remarks had been recorded a week earlier and were not precipitated by the wayward missile. In Norway, the government decided to send a note of protest to the Soviet Union, but the Norwegian defense chief, General Frederik Bull-Hansen, urged the press not to "dramatize" the story. Said he: "There is no reason to believe that the missile came over Norwegian territory to test our preparedness...
...more likely to strike developing nations than industrialized ones. The reasons are both complex and delicate. Some critics charge that corporate greed is at fault, that big businesses will set up shop in a poor nation simply to take advantage of cheap labor and lax laws. Says David Bull, chief of the Environment Liaison Center in Nairobi, Kenya: "There is a growing tendency for the larger multinational chemical concerns to locate their more hazardous factories in developing countries to escape the stringent safety regulations which they must follow at home...