Word: gainers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from $42 in May to $21 per share. Other defense issues that were off sharply: General Dynamics, down from $33 to $25; Martin Marietta ($68 to $51); United Technologies ($59 to $44); McDonnell Douglas ($37 to $30); and Raytheon ($49 to $40). Among energy stocks, Cities Service, a strong gainer only a short time earlier as a result of takeover and merger talk, lost $20 per share in three weeks and sank to $46. Marathon, another favorite among oil stocks, skidded from $80 to $62 in four weeks...
...other English writer." That is why even the stories with surprise endings, like The Open Window, can be read again and again. "The humor came less from his jokes than from the . . . absolute rightness to his language." It is like watching a champion diver do a perfect half gainer. You know how it comes out, but seeing it done is still astonishing...
...reporters missed the excitement of the old mike-to-mike combat with Richard Nixon, or the crisp pace of Jimmy Carter's minilectures. But most agreed with NBC Correspondent Roger Mudd, who expressed relief that reporters would no longer spring "from the half crouch exploding into a full gainer with shout" to get the President's attention. At week's end Brady announced two other changes: Reagan will hold occasional informal sessions with journalists beginning this week, and, as an experiment, questioners at his next formal press conference will be chosen by lottery...
...clear gainer from inflation is the government. As inflation pushes people into higher tax brackets, federal, state and local bureaucracies collect larger revenues without having to put tax increases to a vote. Every 1% increase in inflation results in a 1.5% growth in personal income tax revenues. Consumers and politicians waging war on inflation might adopt a motto of the late great comic strip character Pogo: "We have met the enemy...
Each time the freshman tailback came up with a big gainer, the North stands would shout out "Herschel," and the South stands would come back with a big "Walker." Then the North would do its line again, and each side would keep on trying to out-yell the other. When this game died out they would start up again with something like "Georgia-Bulldogs" of "Third Down-Hold...