Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hardest hit was an area near the town of Roundup (pop. 2,119) in southeastern Montana, where 37 homes were destroyed by a blaze that began in the arid Bull Mountains, sending up columns of smoke that drifted into Billings, 30 miles to the south. "It sounded like a jet engine coming through," said Dana Lynam, 34, after a wall of flames attacked her house and melted nearby mobile homes and autos in minutes. Lynam and some 500 others throughout the state were evacuated in time to escape the flames...
...concrete bunker on San Clemente Island, a goat-infested expanse of sand and brush about 75 miles off the coast of Los Angeles. In its first live test against a land target, the Navy's sea-launched cruise missile, known as the Tomahawk, scored a bull's-eye. The building erupted in a blazing fireball that sprayed concrete fragments hundreds of feet into the air and sent tremors reverberating through arms-control circles...
Even so, referring to a woman simply by her surname still bothers some readers. The Philadelphia Inquirer, which has a new policy eliminating honorifics in most cases, recently received a bundle of letters for referring to Nancy Reagan as "Reagan." Says John V.R. Bull, the paper's ombudsman: "People thought it showed a lack of respect...
...stock market rose over 100 points the last two weeks. Harvard investors reacted aggressively and capitalized on the bull market to make a tidy profit for the University, an official said yesterday...
...banks and bonds issued by U.S. companies in foreign financial centers where taxes are minimal. Now that the American tax has been repealed, foreigners may develop a taste for bonds sold in the U.S. The prospect of increased foreign capital flows and stable interest rates could further fuel the bull market that was gathering force last week...