Word: dow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dow confirms the impression. "Students who take the course are mostly graduate students, research fellows and faculty members," she reports, and she estimates that no more than six undergraduates are enrolled in the four sections this term...
...about the room suggests that English E is something other than the foreign student's counterpart to the American student's foreign language nemesis. There is a mid-to late-twenties look about the students, and a certain formal air emerges during the course of the hour. Anne R. Dow, preceptor in English who teaches all four sections, shuns the use of first names--it is always "Mr. Kobayashi" or "Mrs. Flores...
Although stock prices remain stuck a bit below 1,000 on the Dow Jones industrial average, most Wall Streeters still think it is only a matter of time before the barrier crumbles and the U.S. economy continues its comeback. In back-and-forth trading last week the Dow average closed at 972.92, about even with the previous week's close. Simultaneously, however, the nation got some of the best news yet about prices and jobs. The wholesale price index in February dropped .5%; it was the fourth straight month in which that key indicator has either held steady...
...clipped and such laws as the Pension Reform Act of 1974 mandate a new prudence among managers who invest other people's money. Dozens of "index fund" managers now buy high-dividend stocks and merely try to match or slightly exceed increases in such popular price indexes as Dow Jones and Standard & Poor...
Ironically, amid all this bullish news the stock market last week resoundingly failed to pierce the magic 1,000 mark on the Dow Jones industrial average. For three days prices hovered just below that point, reaching 996 at midday Thursday; then sell orders flooded the New York Stock Exchange. The average tumbled 23 points the last two days, to close the week...