Word: jonesing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Message to Wall Street: Don't put away your worried faces just yet. Monday's 11% bounce on the Dow Jones industrial average was followed by a more solemn Tuesday, with the Dow sinking .8% as investors pulled back fearing tough times ahead. There's still a real economy out...
Meanwhile, other activists are taking similar steps. The NAACP has launched "Arrive With Five," a campaign encouraging its members to bring five friends to polling stations. In predominately black Cleveland, Basheer Jones, 23, is bringing voting-rights experts on his popular morning radio show to puncture the assumption that ex...
But if some criticize the Obama campaign for failing to reach out enough to black voters, the GOP isn't taking advantage of the opening. In 2004, President Bush carried 11% of black voters nationally. After a GOP convention in which blacks accounted for just 36, or 1.5%, of the...
On the seventh day, the market rested. After five days of tumult that added up to the worst week in stock-market history, and a sixth day that saw the biggest point gain ever, the Dow Jones industrial average on Tuesday finished down 76.6 points, or 0.8%, an extremely mild...
In theory, the bank has gone to court because Mr. Jones did not fulfill his requirements on his mortgage, and he's in default so they go ahead with foreclosure proceedings. Then we go out and find out that it isn't Mr. Jones who's living there. It's...