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...that, Wall Streeters are beginning to echo a certain heady confidence that the sorry 1970s had seemed to drain away almost entirely. Says Wall Street's Lurie: "I think people in this business have forgotten just how much fun a bull market really is. To me, all those rationalizations not to invest are pointless. We've come through ten years of bad times, this is an election year, the start of the 1980s, a big era, and it's going to be a big market...
Keene says that his man will struggle in New Hampshire because "Baker can drain votes away from Bush," and adds that Reagan operatives have already suggested a Reagan-Baker debate to isolate Bush. "They'll hear from us if that comes off," Keene warns...
...population is increasing 2% to 3% a year. These people are all going to crowd into the cities, and none of them are going to have jobs. The politicians are going to promise them everything. If you keep your company in Latin America, you will go down the drain." So, when I became chief executive, I took a little cash money and looked at other investments...
...THIS WERE the best of all possible worlds, we would drain the lake now forming behind the dam, and restore to life both the darter, and the beautiful Tennessee Valley now drowning. But this isn't the best of all possible worlds, and within a very few months, the only monuments left to the darter will be a huge expanse of water, and the memory of a government too spineless to save...
...competed in one more event, the balance beam, and as the crowd gasped, whipped through two flipflops, bearing all her weight on one hand. Nadia's courageous effort was good for a 9.95. The next day she returned to the hospital and surgeons operated on her hand to drain the infection. Understandably, Nadia looked grim all week. Said she: "I have nothing to smile about...