Word: grows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many brokers and investors, it is all getting rather scary. How long, they ask, can the market keep going up and up in a straight line? After all, as one of the oldest of all Wall Street cliches puts it, "Trees don't grow to the sky." Peter Furniss, a managing director at the brokerage firm of Smith Barney, Harris Upham, chooses a different metaphor. Says he: "It's like a college frat party. The music is loud, and everybody is having a wild time. But sooner or later, the cops are coming to bust up the party...
...angry young comic was, it seemed then, to engage psychotic adults on their own terms. The only answer was to drop out of the comic's traditional adversary relationship to power and, instead, parade an anarchic childishness. Their banner might have read HELL, NO, WE WON'T GROW UP. In Britain, Monty Python's Flying Circus tossed music-hall bawdry into a Dada format, and at home National Lampoon updated sick humor with a stinging Wasp edge. They were vicious; they were silly; they couldn't care less. And now someone had to shatter the lulling cadences of stand...
...with as little as 21% in 1949. Because the lower and middle classes now have a smaller proportion of the assets, they rely heavily on borrowing and thus become overextended. That puts at heavy risk the banks and other institutions that have loaned them money. Meanwhile, as the rich grow richer, Batra says, they become enamored of speculative investments. As a result, goes Batra's theory, the financial house of cards will topple. The stock market will crash, the banking system will collapse, and the American economy will be forced to its knees...
...teach hula as part of the cultural history of the islands. Teams taught by hula masters compete in hula dance-offs that are approximately as well attended as high school basketball tournaments in Indiana. Such top-ranked groups as the four who traveled to Durham have little chance to grow rusty. This week on the Big Island, for example, the Kanaka'ole sisters will invoke the gods for a space conference and take part in the Kilauea Dance Exhibition...
...presence in the region already totals 24 vessels and about 17,000 men. With the British and French ships, the armada will grow to 45 combat ships, the largest naval force in the area since World War II. Not everyone applauds that buildup. A bipartisan group of 100 Congressmen filed suit in Washington two weeks ago to compel President Reagan to invoke the 1973 War Powers Act. That measure, designed to give Congress a voice in military crises, would require the Administration to withdraw U.S. forces within 60 days unless Congress approves a longer stay. The case will take months...