Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the most bountiful bonuses are on Wall Street, where investment companies this year reaped record earnings from another bull market in stocks. At the Drexel Burnham Lambert brokerage firm, executive officers can earn bonuses equal to as much as three years' salary. Other employees, with at least ten years on the job, are entitled to a gift of up to 20 weeks' pay. Last year the maximum was 13 weeks' worth. Even employees who have been with the company only six months are eligible for up to three weeks' extra wages. "Everybody from...
Meyer opened worship with an invocation written by Martin Luther, who nearly five centuries ago had burned Pope Leo X's excommunication bull: "We pray you, Lord, and we beg you that with the aid of your Spirit, you will return to unity what was fragmented . . ." In his homily, spoken in German, the Pope declared, "This meeting moves me to the bottom of my heart." He added, "We ardently desire unity and we make every effort to achieve it without being discouraged by the difficulties we may meet on our road." The words echoed a papal letter honoring...
...earlier era, and one perhaps more optimistic about human nature, Union General Irvin McDowell reported before the First Battle of Bull Run: "I have made arrangements for the correspondents of our papers to take the field, and I have suggested to them that they should wear a white uniform to indicate the purity of their character." Probably no one talks of journalists that...
...last week stressed that the leak could have jeopardized McFarlane's life in the volatile Middle East. But some aides suggested that the probe was part of the protracted power struggle between Baker and Clark, who is now the Interior Secretary. Said one Administration official: "It was total bull, and a pretty good indication of how bad relations were here before Clark left...
...rushing style is workmanlike. "He runs North-South," says Gluck, "By that I mean he runs straight for the end zone and that's the quickest way to goal line. That's why he'll carry the bull...