Word: chip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What happened 'The cagers suffered three key injuries and looked the depth to stay at loot. One year later depth is less of a problem, with 12 returning lettermen ready to chip...
Leading the buying charge were the big institutional investors, including pension funds, insurance companies and bank trust departments. Scared of being caught on the sidelines during Wall Street's greatest rally, portfolio managers snapped up stocks at a panic pace. Their favorites were the blue chip shares of giant corporations. IBM was up 3⅜ to 85¼. AT&T jumped...
More than a billion miles away, just beyond Saturn's orbit, the lump of icy debris is only dimly lighted by the sun and distant stars. Even the big Palomar mirror could not have found it without a highly sensitive silicon-chip light detector called a charge-coupled device (CCD), used in place of a photographic plate. When the comet approaches for its hairpin swing around the sun in 1986, solar radiation will boil off volatile material, creating a glowing head and characteristic tail and perhaps another heavenly spectacle...
...collected the black bat that Brewer Third Baseman Paul Molitor used to lash a record five hits in Game 1. Milwaukee's marvelous Shortstop Robin Yount, the only player in the 79-year history of the World Series ever to have two four-hit games, was glad to chip in. He does not save things. When a Milwaukee fan caught his home run in Game 5 and tried to give the baseball back, Yount told him, "Why don't you keep it? I'll sign it for you." As the man floated away, Yount murmured...
...into All Savers Certificates to take advantage of high interest rates. With the stock market shooting up, Halper last week called his stockbroker at Shearson/American Express and placed a buy order. Said he: "The yields were no longer attractive, so I decided to buy about $35,000 in blue-chip stocks." Millions of small investors left the market in the long bear market of the early 1970s, but many of them are now coming back, slowly...