Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...increased 158% in value on the New York Stock Exchange, reaching a high of $50. Suddenly Savin's stock collapsed; by the middle of last week its price had been cut nearly in half, to $27.25, and a modest rally brought it back only to $28 Friday. The drop was a classic case of how jittery stock traders can be panicked by a bit of nonnews...
Savin President Robert K. Low told a reporter for the Wall Street Journal that 85% of the drop was due to the W.S.J. article about Conway's remarks. Low acknowledged that Savin was having a dispute with Ricoh about royalties on the copiers, but added that Ricoh was continuing to deliver machines under a contract that runs until 1989. The Dow Jones ticker, operated by the company that publishes the W.S.J., ran an item, but initially omitted the point about the contract, since both Low and the reporter agreed that it was old news. Later the ticker...
...titled The George Burns One-Man Show and is preparing for a starring part in the movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. A new comedy film, Oh, God!, featuring Burns in the title role, has just opened. Last week the active octogenarian paused long enough to drop into the Beverly Hilton hotel and accept the first annual Jack Benny Memorial Award from the March of Dimes. While Ann-Margret, Bob Hope and some 700 others at the $125-a-plate fund raiser looked on, Frank Sinatra presented Burns with his newest trophy: a large but empty humidor...
Neither, for that matter, was the crowd, which had seen Harvard drop five in a row at home and which seemed a bit confused, in the best it's-too-good-to-be-true, so-it-can't-be-happening mold, when the Crimson jumped off to three quick touch-downs. Reality, at first, was too good to be real...
There was only one reason why anyone in their right mind would stand in the pouring rain at Soldier's Field swamp yesterday watching the Harvard freshmen drop a 22-20 decision to their counterparts from Dartmouth: Paul Connors...