Word: bullish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...polls through the late summer and early fall. He failed to prove his contention that the "rednecks" he bragged about were sufficiently numerous or widely enough distributed to people a national movement (see following story). Thus the prospects of his American Independent Party now seem far less bullish than they did just a few weeks ago. Conversely, the future of the two-party system seems more secure...
...friends that Margarete soon gave up dressmaking, began turning out other stuffed animals with the help of relatives. When several Steiff-made bears wound up as table decorations at the 1906 White House wedding of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Teddy's daughter, the resulting publicity made the German company bullish on bears; the following year it sold 974,000 cuddly Teddy bears...
...that figure tells only a modest part of the story. Shares on the American Exchange jumped 82% in 1967, and the Standard & Poor average of 20 low-priced issues climbed 87%. While few experts expect such phenomenal growth to continue, in an expansive economy the long-term trend remains bullish...
...park-bench philosopher who doled out wisdom from a seat in Central Park or Lafayette Square. Admirers tended to forget-Baruch never did-that in the forenoon of that career, he had also been one of Wall Street's craftiest speculators. Baruch could be bearish or bullish. He once sold Amalgamated Copper short and realized $700,000 when Amalgamated reduced a dividend, causing its overpriced stock to tumble. Another time, alerted by a newspaperman that Commodore Schley had beaten the Spanish at Santiago, virtually ending the Spanish-American War, Baruch spent July 4, 1898, on the cable buying...
Administration to believe that the outlook for business is undeniably bullish. ∙INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION. Like most of the indicators, once lackluster industrial production is joining the general upswing. Having slumped from its December peak of 159 (based on the 1957-59 standard of 100), the index for output in July recovered and climbed back to 156.3. Lending a helping nudge were major strike settlements in the television and rubber industries. In July there were also rises of 3.6% in mining output, 3% in electrical machinery production and 2% in auto manufacturing...