Word: hint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Reagan's efforts on the tax bill fueled the market surge, the rally was initially ignited by declining interest rates and the stunning news that Wall Street's two most influential pessimists had changed their downbeat tune. The first hint that something extraordinary was about to unfold came on Monday morning. The First Boston investment firm announced that Albert Wojnilower, its chief economist, had revised his economic forecast. After warning for months that the huge federal budget deficit could send interest rates shooting back up again, Wojnilower now admitted that the cost of money would probably continue...
...learned about the shady side of the sunny French Riviera. He became interested in the subject when the daughter of a close friend got involved in a messy divorce. After the couple separated, the estranged husband, Daniel Guy, a real estate operator in Nice, allegedly threatened his wife by hinting of his connections with the milieu, local argot for the Nice underworld. Greene tells a harrowing tale of purported assaults on Guy's wife and her father, the kidnaping of the couple's child by Guy, and threats, including a heavy hint by Guy that Greene might...
...crisp, even tones. They were terse, sometimes merely a clipped "Yes" to senatorial inquiries that were often more speech than question. He had two bulging briefcases at his feet, but never once reached into them to search for a paper that would provide an answer. Confident, but with no hint of arrogance, George Pratt Shultz, 61, provided a reassuring display of his Washington-wise competence as he went about winning unanimous confirmation by the Senate as the 60th U.S. Secretary of State...
...chief executive officer at a Florida financial institution demands that reports printed out by his firm's computers be retyped on nice, white, pre-computer-revolution paper before he will even look at them. Without a hint of apology, he explains that he will not trust anything he reads on green-and-white printouts. At the headquarters of a large Atlanta company, the chairman of the board boasts that he has never touched a keyboard, and that neither he nor any of his right-hand men have a computer in their office. Explains an underling: "For these guys...
...Budget, he was responsible for Lopez Portillo's grandiose Global Plan for Development, a document that has now been discreetly shelved. One reason De la Madrid may have escaped criticism is his innocuous lifestyle. Highly disciplined and a deeply religious Roman Catholic, he is untouched by any hint of scandal. He likes to spend the weekend reading in his garden. Says one diplomat who has known De la Madrid for years: "He lives comfortably, but he has never lived extravagantly. Some of his friends even consider him a little tightfisted...