Word: dowe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Winans rose quickly after leaving the Trentonian in 1981 to become a $379-a-week copyreader at the Dow Jones News Service, a Journal affiliate. The following year he was promoted to the newspaper as a "Heard on the Street" writer. Although he received a written warning after making four factual errors, he improved enough to win a raise. Said Pearlstine: "In spite of the reprimand letter, I thought Foster was doing a fine job in most respects...
...October of 1967, 300 students imprisoned a recruiter from Dow Chemical, a manufacturer of napalm for use in Vietnam, for several hours in Mallinkrodt Hall. When the dust settled, 74 students had been placed on probation, and 171 received official warnings from the administration...
...interest-rate hike and fears about more to come sent the Dow Jones industrial average down nearly 30 points during the week, after a 44.60-point rise the week before. It finished at 1154.84. Shaky for months, bond prices weakened again. As the markets fluttered, analysts and investors turned once more to their favorite sport: watching the Federal Reserve Board's every move. The policymaking Open Market Committee is due to meet early this week to review the state of the economy and set interest-rate guidelines, and many moneymen fear that it will tighten up rates because...
...University holds $93 million in II Group II-"Making Progress"--companies, including Dow Chemicals, General Electric, Bristol-Meyers, Deere and Co and Goodyear...
...companies found different ways to make computers simpler for novices to use. Software Publishing, which sells the popular PFS series of list-keeping programs, unveiled Access, a product that enables computer owners to bypass the complicated log-on procedures needed to use information-retrieval services like those run by Dow Jones, CompuServe and The Source. Lotus Development, maker of the business package 1-2-3, last year's bestselling program, showed off its latest product, Symphony, which permits the easy transfer of information among five diverse computer programs...