Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard moved back into a first-place tie with Dartmouth in the Ivy League Sunday without ever taking the floor; Cornell lifted the hoopsters back into the top spot by shocking the Big Green, 58-57, in Ithaca...
...closed to outsiders. Last week, though, the Japanese opened the door a crack. New York-based Merrill Lynch became the first foreign company to take a seat on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and start trading. Before Merrill Lynch's team of eleven traders made their debut on the exchange floor, they gathered at the company's Tokyo office to toast the venture with whisky, beer and sake. "It is a historic time for us and Japan," said Walter Burkett, a general manager. Merrill Lynch will soon be joined on the exchange by two other New York firms, Morgan Stanley...
...Merrill Lynch will employ mostly Japanese as traders on the exchange floor, where transactions are carried out with hand signals that are based on the Japanese language. The company's first American trader is Raymond Forbes, a New Yorker. He speaks fluent Japanese and has already spent four months at the Tokyo exchange as a trader for Nikko Securities...
Dressed in a baseball jacket, cords, and high-tops, Stephen W. Gutwillig '86 sits on the floor and plays with a cat as he speaks of the festival's meaning. "It's about plucking hope out of the shadows of the AIDS crisis," he says. "That's why it's the festival of life and [the words on the poster] are green. We want to show that a positive response is more contagious than the disease itself...
...Turkey Deluxe and a copy of the Undergraduate Council's divestment referendum. To no one in particular I muttered, "Sure, divestment's all right... the council may as well throw in a good word for it." Then it happened. My Turkey Deluxe and I were knocked to the floor. I rose to confront my assailant, and there it was--the Issue Hyper-Sensitivity Beast...