Word: happen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sudden sense of vacancy, of eternity, in Robert Kennedy's eyes as he lay on the floor of the Los Angeles hotel pantry. That vacancy, almost exactly halfway through the year, seemed to break the year's back. Nothing good, one thought, could happen after that...
...There are areas of agreement. They happen to be in an area that could be called window-dressing," Dickess said...
Sobered by the crash, Lynch is wary about what will happen to the market. He does not foresee a recession yet, but is fearful of the plunging dollar. "If the dollar declines from here," he says, "it will probably accelerate our inflation and persuade the Europeans and Japanese to stay out of the U.S. stock market." Lynch also frets that the market is at the mercy of sophisticated, new computerized trading techniques that sometimes run out of control. Says he: "Program trading, portfolio insurance, stock options and index trading accelerated the crash. Without them, instead of an 508-point decline...
...Lynch does not waste much time agonizing about what could happen next week. He has been too busy snapping up stocks that he considered well worth buying at their depressed postcrash prices: Goodyear, Chrysler, Intel, Texas Instruments, Carnival Cruise Lines and Toys "R" Us, along with companies that most people have not yet heard of, such as Metro Mobile CTS, a cellular phone system, and Comcast, a cable-TV operator...
...dollar plummeted to its lowest levels against the Japanese yen and the West German mark since the 1940s. The turmoil could not help pushing urgent questions into the minds of every reader of the financial pages: What is going on with the U.S. economy, and what is going to happen in the new year...