Word: dampers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shares. The rally in the middle of last week was given particularly powerful support by some 200 major corporations that started buying up their own stock at bargain prices, in part to keep it out of the hands of would-be raiders. The crash put at least a temporary damper on mergers and acquisitions anyway. Several deals fell through because the bids made for the target companies suddenly looked unrealistically high after the general decline in stock prices...
...loss evened the Crimson's Ivy League record to 1-1 (3-3-1 overall), and put a damper on its hopes for a first Ivy title. Cornell--which had been blown out, 10-1, by Penn last month--improved to 2-1 (4-5 overall...
Confusion at the level of theory has put no damper on the orgy of speculation about potential applications. Some ideas involve upgrading existing superconducting technology; others push marginal technology into the realm of the profitable; still others raise the prospect of entirely new uses of the phenomenon...
...unexpected flurry seemed to defy a whole host of forces. Many Wall Streeters had thought tax reform would put at least a temporary damper on merger activity by taking away some of the deductions that help make the deals attractive. Another concern was that the insider-trading scandal would hurt the ability of investment firms to raise money for takeovers. A third impediment to mergers has been the continuing surge in stock prices, which has made takeovers increasingly expensive...
...loss to Princeton put a damper on Harvard's hopes of winning its first ever Ivy League title, and with the Ivy wrestling season just half over only Cornell which edged the Crimson, 24-17, last week in Ithaca, N.Y.--appears to have any chance of challenging the league-leading Tigers...