Word: jump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...percentage terms, the 246% jump has been exceeded three times: by a 496% run-up in the eight years before the 1929 crash, a 371% recovery from 1933 to 1937 and a 355% climb between 1949 and 1961. But all those bull markets rose from far lower price levels; in dollar terms there has never been anything remotely resembling the current market binge. The Wilshire Index of the combined value of 5,000 stocks has climbed $2.2 trillion in the past five years, equal to half the U.S. gross national product of $4.4 trillion...
...every reason to feel successful and satisfied. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he had founded the first black legal firm on Wall Street and enjoyed a six-figure income. But four years ago, at age 40, Lewis became bored with a lawyer's life. He decided to jump onto a faster track: the takeover game...
...aims to protect consumers by another method: setting price caps, which would freeze long-distance rates at current levels but could adjust them upward to account for inflation and other factors. AT&T rejoiced at the decision, which Wall Street analysts say could allow the company's profits to jump by an estimated 50% by 1990. But consumer advocates blasted the proposal and claimed it would bring an end to the slide in AT&T's long-distance prices, which have fallen some 34% since the company's divestiture...
...kind of hot Indiana hot weather that sends the family dog scrooching under the pickup truck to enjoy the shade. But in South Bend, on the Notre Dame and St. Mary's College campuses, heroic athletes from 70 countries were running and jumping and laughing from the sheer joy of it all. No, these were not the Pan American Games, which were to start a few days later, downstate at Indianapolis. The competitors there, everyone knew, would run faster and jump higher. But not happier; world happiness records were being set here at the Seventh International Summer Special Olympics...
Suppose a local college newspaper ran three fallacious, sensationalized, irresponsible articles within one four-day period. Would that be sufficient cause to "fundamentally question" the newspaper's credibility? Most people wouldn't jump to the conclusion that the entire paper's staff was irresponsible and ineffective because of one isolated instance of poor reporting. Most would realize that in the daily operation of a large organization unfortunate accidents may occur. The two recent accidents involving Phillips Brooks House Association summer camps were such unfortunate accidents. However, the coverage of the accidents by The Crimson has been more unfortunate than either...