Word: dowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show by Entertainer Mary, Martin, Volcker told the President that he wanted to stay on and that uncertainty about the top job at the Fed was becoming unhealthy for financial markets. The next day, in part because of rumors that Volcker was on his way out, investors drove the Dow Jones industrial average down 19 points. The following day it slumped an additional 9 points. The market recovered part of the loss later in the week after-rumors started that Volcker might be reappointed after all. It closed the week down...
...Vice Chairman Martin less than 1%. More than half the executives fear a return to double-digit inflation if Volcker is replaced. So bullish is Wall Street on Volcker that Charles M. Lewis, vice president of Shearson/American Express, predicts that "the day the reappointment is announced will see the Dow rise 35 points. Nobody ever made more money in the market than they made under Volcker...
...Academic American Encyclopedia is carried by the Dow Jones News/Retrieval service and Bibliographic Retrieval Services, two information data base systems. Dow Jones News/Retrieval also carries business and financial news, while Bibliographic Retrieval Services supplies information on academic and scientific research. The two firms provide the electronic encyclopedia to some 90,000 subscribers, including 200 public and university libraries and eight schools in three states. Customers can hook up to the encyclopedia with a personal computer over a telephone line or via cable television. Average price for the service: 60? a minute during the day with a personal computer...
...first priority for the new encyclopedia's developers was ease of use. Dow Jones News/Retrieval tested the encyclopedia on 25 sixth-graders before putting it on the market. Said Richard J. Levine, editorial director of Dow Jones' information services: "Our goal was to make it so easy to use that you wouldn't need an instruction booklet. No one has ever tried to make such a complex thing so simple...
...Dow Chemical...