Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that it is overly sweet; too much light, not enough illumination. Now that McCartney is 54, however, age has brought to his work a welcome melancholy; there's a streak of gray in his golden voice. The Song We Were Singing, a gentle number looking back at the psychedelic bull sessions of the 1960s, has a jaunty feel but also a wistful one; Heaven on a Sunday finds McCartney at his most angelic, his voice gliding peacefully over a sadly sweet melody. The song has familial warmth to it, and no wonder: McCartney's wife Linda sings backing vocals...
This is the value of Harvard's endowment at the end of fiscal year 1995. By 1996, the endowment's value had risen 26 percent to $9.1 billion, due mainly to the bull market, but just as important to this increase has been Harvard's frugal management of its precious nest...
...buzz for tax relief has rarely been louder, and is part of a bipartisan deal to balance the budget by 2002. More important, there is mounting grass-roots support for cutting taxes on investment gains. Thanks to a roaring bull market, and the fact that anyone with two nickels to spare is in stocks, Wall Street windfalls are no longer reserved for the rich. A survey by the NASDAQ stock exchange shows that the proportion of adults owning equities has doubled, to 43%, since...
Under a law barring criminals from making money from their crimes, Mafia snitch Sammy ("the Bull") Gravano shouldn't benefit from his work with author Peter Maas on a book about life in the Mob. Publisher HarperCollins says he was not paid, but one victim's daughter thinks that's bull. Last week Laura Garofalo sued Gravano for wrongful-death damages to the tune of $50 million...
...cite among the few successes of the FBI the conviction of Mob boss John Gotti and the arrest of Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski. If it had not been for a plea bargain with mass murderer Sammy ("the Bull") Gravano in exchange for his testimony, Gotti would probably still be the "Teflon Don." If Kaczynski's brother had not gone to the FBI with incriminating evidence, the Unabomber suspect might still be living in his Montana cabin. ROBERT J. QUIRK Sarasota...