Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...governing committee held a secret meeting in a room under the exchange floor. Cigarettes were lit and the small room filled with smoke. Some members felt the exchange should be closed; others argued that if that happened it would never reopen. The governors did nothing, and by the end of the day $6.7 billion more had been erased from investors' portfolios...
Cornfeld's fortunes tumbled with the end of the bull market on Wall Street in the late 1960s. I.O.S. shares, which had been going for as much as $25 in mid-1969, were selling for 400 by late...
...take between the generations. Says Professor Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, president of the West German Research Society: "In America, you have to be different to be accepted. West German scientists are not very original. They don't take risks. They watch what the others are doing, and in the end they all march in the same direction...
...boldness and desperation that are implicit in the text. Robin Ellis might have brought to Acton more of the shrewdness and tart ness of his Poldark. As presented, the pair are so agreeable and handsome that one sees no reason for them not to get together in the end...
...rational debate became irrelevant. During a discussion among antiwar protesters, for example, one participant expressed fear that the Communists might take over Viet Nam if the U.S. withdrew. Jason Epstein, who helped launch the New York Review of Books, scornfully responded: "So you like to see little babies napalmed." End of discussion...