Word: bullish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whole series revels in misanthropy; it parades the bullish stupidity of your average teenager, your average parent, your average everybody. The only things these movies romanticize are cars, cigarettes (each character smokes about three packs a minute) and the cliches of old teen pix. "Rumble at the playground tonight!" The young actors, children of the children of the '50s, might be speaking Old English, but they give the words an authentic spin. They know that the '50s was the cauldron in which the modern language of rebellion was forged...
When Rogers finds such a hospitable environment, he gets very excited, parks his bike at the local exchange and buys a selection of stocks on the spot. These days Rogers is bullish on the darnedest places: Peru, Angola, Cameroon, and especially Botswana -- all seven of that country's stocks. Botswana has a stable currency, prosperous mines, rich natural resources, a 10% growth rate and no tribal conflicts to speak of, and the stock exchange is one desk in a banker's office. He likes New Zealand, which has cheap stocks and is starting to emerge from 10 years of depression...
...next day, he was vacationing at an unknown location somewhere outside Moscow. Left behind at the Liberal Democrats' headquarters were several dozen staff members -- mostly bullish young men not unlike the 10 "soldiers" whom Zhirinovsky, clad in fatigues, had sent off from the Moscow airport last January to "fight American imperialism" in Iraq. Two floors below, a store called the Rock Shop hawked copies of his newspapers (Zhirinovsky's Falcon and Zhirinovsky's Truth), as well as cassettes by heavy-metal groups like Anthrax and Pestilence. Visitors could also purchase copies of his autobiography, Last Thrust to the South...
According to last week's standings, Jack Morris's $5.5 million arm is bringing in the worst Earned Run Average in the American league for the Toronto Blue Jays. Even in Baseball, this "Price/earnings" ratio doesn't check out. Was his stock inflated by bullish bidders...
Confidential polling by the Clinton campaign also showed slippage over several days, though their internal numbers were more bullish for the Democrat than the TIME/CNN findings. While the new stats caused some anxiety, they also had a positive side. The impression that Clinton could not be beaten carried with it the danger that some voters would stay home. Others, yearning for change but hostile to politics as usual, might be tempted to give their ballots to Perot as a symbolic protest that would not affect the outcome. A sense of sharpening competition lowers those risks. It is critical...