Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...warning signs are everywhere. Share prices in the relentlessly upbeat stock market now stand at sky-high levels by historical standards, and dividend yields have fallen to near record lows -- classic signals that the bull market that began 2 1/2 years ago has got dangerously long in the tooth. At the same time, companies continue to flood Wall Street with new issues to cash in on the bull's run before it can stumble -- another omen that the market may be overheated and headed for a fall. Even the current rush of little-guy buyers is usually a harbinger...
...confusing messages. A continuing sluggish recovery is certainly bad news: it threatens to trim corporate profits and cause stock prices to slump. But a robust recovery might have the same effect: by boosting interest rates it could entice investors back to banks and money markets and put the bull to flight. The key to everything seems to be interest rates. "If you get a major rise in rates, it will kill the market," says Marty Zweig, who runs the Zweig Funds...
...which Shelley Long (who left after the fifth season) returns as Diane Chambers. And the festivities don't end there. Preceding the last show will be a 30-minute special featuring clips from past seasons. Following it, the Tonight show will originate from Boston's Bull and Finch bar, the model for the Cheers pub. It's all part of what NBC is trumpeting as "the television event of a lifetime...
This championship follows the success of last fall's Crimson croquet team, which also defeated the Bull dogs in the title game in Southampton, New York...
Williams impressed his rank and file with his decisive response in halting a miniriot last December in South Central. The chief immediately dispatched 300 | officers in riot gear to the scene, where they quelled the melee with rubber bullets. "At least he grabbed the bull by the horns," commented a 27-year officer at his retirement party. Yet the police force suffers from poor morale, and most officers still chafe at Williams' attitude that the police are public servants rather than a repressive force. Some thoughtful cops recognize the problem. "The public has to remember that we are their police...