Word: dowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pulled it off!" exulted Michel. "That's terrific," replied the President. Said Michel afterward: "At least we have really made a start." Indeed, simply by showing that it could agree in principle on a spending plan, Congress gave a jolt of confidence to the jittery U.S. economy. The Dow Jones industrial aver age shot up more than eleven points the day after the House budget passed. The long-term reaction of business leaders and financial markets remained unclear. Un less they become convinced that the Government's monetary and fiscal policies are under control, interest rates are likely...
Losses to Yale (which precipitated Harvard's sharing of the Ivy title with Penn), UMass and UNH, surprisingly enough, turned up amid wins against both Yale and UNH in the Easterns. The team's intensity seemed to rise and fall with the regularity of the Dow Jones index. As one player said, until the game started you would never know whether the team had come to play...
...stock market, meanwhile, has turned bullish with the Dow Jones industrial average moving up from around 795 in March to close last week at 857.78. Market players have already bid up issues that represent basic necessities like food, beverages, drugs and household cosmetics, which could benefit from disinflation. Pillsbury has moved from $36 a share to $46 in less than a year, and Procter & Gamble is trading near its yearly high of $87. Canny strategists are focusing on industries that should recover as the recession ebbs. Those include: home appliances, paper, forest products, aluminum and automobiles...
...mistaken for Ye Stocke Exchange. Dusty volumes have become hot commodities. New York City Dealer Raymond Wapner finds the upswing encouraging: "It's about time we came to terms with the economic reality of the times. In upward movement and general stability, rare books perform better than the Dow Jones index." Indeed, in two decades rare books have appreciated about 30 times, on the average, outperforming gold, diamonds and Oriental rugs...
Although Shea said that $350,000 was spent in the production of the program, an ICA spokesman said almost all of that money was reimbursed to the government through private donations. These private donors included Mobil Oil, Dow-Corning Corp., and Quaker Outs...