Word: dot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finger and gets lost out there in the grasses. He squints as if dialing the eyes to better focus, as if trying to build the platonic lion out of grass. Still the lion will not come. The beast is hidden in the grass like the number in the dot test for color blindness. Rake your gaze into the grass again, staring deeply into it, and slowly the scene develops like a Polaroid picture, taking color and form. The eyes discover that they are staring straight, deeply, into the eyes of a lion -- only the eyes. And the lion is staring...
...School students, faculty, and staff use the public tunnels to travel underground from building to building. Laundry rooms. Coke machines, and bathrooms dot the yellow cement-brick walls, and the steam pipes far above are barely noticeable. People pass through unconcerned by the strange clicking noise can be heard coming from the pipes at intersections. Decorative flagstones pave the floor in some places...
Acrophobia set in at about 1:45 p.m., when sell orders began flitting through the exchange's super-DOT computer circuits in bunches of 1,000 to 2,000 shares each. Among the hardest-hit blue-chip stocks were 3M, which fell 7 1/4, to 126 3/4; Du Pont, which dropped 4, to 95; and Philip Morris, down 1 1/2, to 81. Some traders attributed the rout to the news of a statement by Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker that a legislative stalemate on banking deregulation could endanger the U.S. banking system...
...years it was viewed as an almost impossibly small dot on the financial horizon, a historic goal to be pursued in frustrating fits and starts. Suddenly, in 1986, the target became closer and more tantalizing. As 1987 brought a fresh frenzy of trading on the New York Stock Exchange, everyone on Wall Street, as well as investors across the U.S. and around the world, was caught up in the drama: Just when would the Dow Jones industrial average gather its full force and break through the psychologically portentous barrier...
...costly apartment overlooking Manhattan's East River but spend much of their time on a 200-acre estate in suburban Westchester County, where guards patrol a laser-controlled entrance gate to the property. Inside the Georgian-style house, paintings by Monet and Renoir adorn the walls, and valuable works dot a nearby sculpture garden. Recently Boesky applied to local town planners for permission to add a dome to the residence, to give it, said his architect, a more "Jeffersonian look...