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...heaviest losers of 1984 were speculative stocks. Shares on the American Stock Exchange, where many new and lower-priced issues are traded, fell 8.4%. Over-the-counter shares dropped an average of 11.2%. As a result, institutional investors and market-advice newsletters found it hard to pick any fast-rising stocks. Said Barton Biggs, managing director of the Morgan Stanley investment firm: "We have been like rock stars, but the fun is over for a while now that the customers think we can't sing...
...heaviest on the crew. I lose weight properly for as long as I can but then fast as a last ditch measure," says Streeter. When asked if she would advocate her method, she says, "I would advocate doing it only as a last minute measure...
...from Wall Street, where stocks had been sliding. On Tuesday the bulls broke loose again: the Dow Jones industrial average jumped 34.78 points, to record its best gain since Aug. 3; and more than 169 million shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange, making it the sixth heaviest trading day ever. Said Harry Laubscher, a Paine Webber market analyst: "The bears had Thanksgiving, the bulls Christmas." After the big jump, profit takers moved in, and the market dropped for three straight days. Nonetheless, the Dow Jones average ended the week at 1198.98, up 23.07 points...
...Henry Vane-Tempest. In 1799 Vane-Tempest put him up against Diamond, another star horse, for a purse of 3,000 guineas. (At the time, a farmer's laborer might have made the equivalent of five guineas a year.) The match drew the biggest crowd and the heaviest side-betting ever seen at Newmarket, and amid scenes of hysterical excitement Hambletonian won the four-mile race by half a neck. He finished "shockingly goaded," lathered in blood from whip and spur. To commemorate the victory, Vane-Tempest had the 7 5-year-old Stubbs paint him life size...
...knowledge that they have no control of the course of events weighs heaviest, making this defeat hurt even more than the first...