Word: guess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contract representing a group of stocks that make up one of the market indexes--for example, the New York Stock Exchange composite--at a fixed price at some future date. What it amounts to is a legal bet on which way the market index is headed. If investors guess right, they can cash in their options at a profit. About 95% of the investors in N.Y.S.E. composite index options are individuals, and the volume of trading has surged 60% since the beginning of the year...
...guess they've got our number," Harvard Coach Bill Cleary speculated after the game...
...above) One guess is as good as another. Cox either stops short of the point of most scenes or rolls on past it. But there is something cheerful in the anarchy of his methods, something unpretentious in his allusions to the car's extraterrestrial dimension, something bracing in his aversion to the well made. No wonder adolescents have taken Repo Man for their own. Lifting its hood is like peering into a teen-ager's mind: miswired and noisy, Repo Man is capable of fast starts and amazing cornering. By Richard Schickel...
...guess who's coming to town tomorrow afternoon--none other than first place Brown, sporting a 5-1 league record...
...Reagan's eyes were squinted, his brow tense. "The word comes that they're (the missiles) on their way. And you sit here knowing that there is no way, at present, of stopping them. So they're going to blow up how much of this country we can only guess at, and your only response can be to push the button before they get here so that even though you're all going to die, they're going...