Word: goldener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...futures price, since it registers the market's expectations of where the actual S&P stocks are heading, often veers substantially above or below the current level of those stocks. When the futures price strays far enough from the real index, it creates a golden door for the arbitrage traders. They play both sides of the gap, knowing they will make money on the difference. For example, if an arbitrager sees the S&P futures price rising well above the S&P stock index, the trader would buy a package of the 500 stocks that make up the index, which...
...GOLDEN CUP, Plain...
...nuclear disarmament, celebrated the fact that they had finally made it from coast to coast. The marchers, about 400 of whom had made the more than 3,200-mile trip that began in Los Angeles 237 days earlier, ranged from sprightly children to Franklin Folsom, 79, who celebrated his golden wedding anniversary with his wife along the route...
...until the late 19th century, the "golden age of bacteriology," that scientists began to suspect the existence of some kind of infectious agents even smaller than the bacteria that were clearly visible through their microscopes...
Wars look better after 40 years, when the old men who were soldiers forget how frightened they were. Perhaps it is merely that survival itself takes on a golden haze: we were being shot at, but we were young, and the bullets missed. Even so, it seems strange that anyone would look back fondly at time spent as prisoner or guard in a military prison...