Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American Express is added to the blue-chip stock index...
...American Express last week joined the most exclusive club in U.S. business: the often quoted Dow Jones index of 30 leading industrial companies. No one was more surprised than Amex officials when they learned that they were replacing the ailing Manville Corp. on the blue-chip list that includes Exxon, General Motors, A. T. & T. and other giant firms. Said Amex Chairman James Robinson III: "We are simply delighted." Added Sanford Weill, chairman of the firm's executive committee and Shearson/American Express, the second largest U.S. brokerage: "I pinched myself to make sure it was true...
...public, Jordanian officials express the view that relations between the Bedouin minority and the Palestinians are healthy and mutually beneficial. Says a government of icial: "When you talk about Jordan today, you talk about a well-knit Jordanian-Palestinian economy. If you talk about radicalization, Palestinians would be equally affected [for the worse...
...health problems because of exposure to asbestos. Even though Manville stock was one of 30 that make up the Dow Jones industrial average, the market shrugged off the firm's troubles, and the Dow gained 11 points in the first hour of trading. Dow Jones quickly said that American Express Co. would replace Manville in the blue-chip index starting this week...
...Washington, D.C., together with a 146-piece exhibit of engravings and lithographs entitled "Sixty-Five Years of Printmaking." Judging from the paintings, Soyer, who is 82, has spent the past two decades in vigorous reaffirmation of his credo that "art must communicate, it must represent, it must describe and express people, their lives and times." As he grows older, the Russian-born master of American realism has undertaken ever larger canvases, while seeking more brilliant colors that might better represent the truth as he sees...