Word: jump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confidential information. Gary Lynch, enforcement director of the Securities and Exchange Commission, worries about what he calls "an unsettling proliferation of rumor activity in the marketplace." Says Lynch: "We have opened an unusually large number of investigations recently." Last week the SEC and two exchanges were studying the sudden jump in RCA stock before the merger announcement...
...Jump in the river...
...Total retail toy sales grew 20% last year, thanks to a healthy economy and the excitement stirred by such blockbuster products as Coleco's Cabbage Patch Kids and Hasbro's Transformer robots. That would be a tough performance to follow in any industry, but experts predict toy sales will jump an additional 10% in 1985, to $13.5 billion...
Pains are taken in the staging to highlight the interdependency of these voices- to reiterate that they are not each a character, but part of one. They jump in on each other's lines, finishing thoughts and emphasizing the taunting echoes that crescendo in Eliot's memory. Overdone, though, are the long, pregnant glances directed at the voice of the poet, that must be taken by the three others before each exit...
Even the staging worked against a lively performance. The stage props, a tree and a stairwell, crowded out the nearly 20 performers on the already cramped stage. Dance and summersaults on stage became frustrated acrobatics as actors struggled to jump onto the tree in order to make room for the entrances of other actors...