Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scores were saved. On South Dakota's huge Pine Ridge Sioux Indian Reservation, volunteers brought firewood to one isolated compound just in time: the elderly Indian women had begun to burn their clothing for heat. Jack Fourier, a local rancher, donated a frozen brahma bull to hungry Sioux 50 miles away, and used his chain saw to carve up the carcass. "In weather like this," said Fourier, "people got to pitch in for each other." In northern Indiana, people did just that. Paramedic Robert Hickman flagged down a freight train and highballed it 3½ miles to pick...
...cheap, hoping that they will stage big comebacks. In early 1982 his firm invested $500 million in 250 companies threatened by bankruptcy because, he said, "those that did not go broke would more than make up for those that did." He was right: during the economic recovery and bull market, the $500 million has grown by 93% to almost $1 billion...
...Trust Company of the West has beaten the S & P 500 index by an annual average of at least 2%, but last year the company fell behind somewhat. Reason: the managers failed to switch money fast enough from high-technology shares, which were big gainers early in the bull market, to stocks in basic industries like steel that came on strong later in the rally...
Spurred by increased competition and helped by the bull market, pension-fund managers are achieving their best results in years. As recently as the late 1970s, concern was rising that hundreds of company pension plans might eventually run out of money as more and more employ ees retired. Now those fears are fading...
...plunged nearly 50% in the first nine months of 1983 as key products faltered both at home and abroad. The company, which prides itself on the warmth of its employee relations, had to make a series of painful layoffs. Kodak stock, meanwhile, sank 12.5% during the year despite the bull market, making it the worst performer among the 30 blue-chip issues in the Dow Jones industrial average...