Word: kollsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...study he headed while working at Long Island's Kollsman Instrument Corp., Moskowitz and his co-workers plotted a hypothetical space flight to the star 45 Eridani, barely visible to the naked eye from earth and some 466 light-years away. Picking well-known stars in 45 Eridani's region of the sky, he fed data about their positions, distance and absolute brightness into a computer programmed to generate the appropriate star map for any point along the route of the flight...
...Thirteen. Stop-loss orders have increased 25% in the past five weeks, Specialist John Coleman estimates, and have nearly doubled in some of the glamour stocks. The result: whenever the price dips, the stop-loss orders set off in a chain, and the stock plummets. Standard Kollsman stock was caught this way recently: the exchange canceled all Kollsman stop-loss orders on the books, has yet to restore them...