Word: go-go
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...moviegoer come out of the closet. It was long overdue, since rape-and-murder occupies more entertainment time than any other subject except love. I don't think a night goes by without some prime-time detective battling a lady-killer, without shapely blondes and brunettes in tennis or go-go or hooker regalia done away with by nasty hitmen or mixed-up innocents who were teased by girls in high school...
First Perm's highflyer had been Bunting, its handsome and articulate chairman. In a wild roller-coaster ride starting in 1968, he tried to move the conservative regional bank into the same class as the major New York institutions with a go-go policy of risky venture-capital loans and high-yielding real estate deals. For a while the strategy worked. In five years First Penn led all banks with a healthy 16.4% return on equity. But the 1974-75 recession caught the bank overextended. Then, between 1976 and 1979, Bunting sank about 20% of the bank...
...developing solution, which simultaneously produced a negative and positive print. The film and paper could be separated after 60 sec. to reveal the picture. During the 1950s and 1960s, the wizard of light turned out a steady stream of new cameras, faster developing films and color films. During its go-go Wall Street era, Polaroid became the epitome of a glamour stock. A $1,000 investment in the company in 1938 was worth more than $4 million at its peak...
...excitement in the stodgy old stock market, which has yet to make a really convincing recovery from the disastrous losses that followed the go-go years of the late 1960s? Wall Streeters had no end of bullish answers, but mostly they boiled down to a growing feeling among investors that the nation's psychological funk has bottomed out and that under the spur of events in Iran and Afghanistan, a sense of direction and purpose is finally beginning to emanate from Washington. Says Howard Stein, chairman of the Dreyfus Fund, a leading mutual fund investment firm: "There...
Hand in hand, smiling and seemingly without a care in the world, Bert and LaBelle Lance last week strode into the Richard Russell Federal Building in Atlanta. They headed for the gold-upholstered ceremonial courtroom on the 23rd floor, site of the most unpleasant event in Lance's go-go career. His long awaited trial for violating U.S. banking laws was about to begin, and he professed to be eager to get started. Said Lance: "We're ready to move ahead...