Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little man may give the market a needed lift, but the market's future will still be determined largely by the huge and growing institutional investors. Last year the market was swelled by $2 billion from pension funds, $1.3 billion from such mutual funds as Massachusetts Investors Trust (see Management) and hundreds of millions more from other institutions. The institutions hold about 15% of the nation's $650 billion worth of common and preferred stocks, and such companies as G.M., A.T. & T., G.E. and IBM each have about 1,000 institutional investors. The institutions have more money than...
John Pont, who came from Miami of Ohio in 1963 to coach Yale to a 12-5-1 record, has accepted the job of trying to lift Indiana University's football team out of its perennial slump...
...scene changes again, and I'm at the football stadium. A game is in progress, but everyone in the stands seems to be reading. Interception by Harvard! Carried to the Yale three yard line! The cheerleaders lift their megaphones...
...watch him, Ladies and Gentlemen. See how nimble, see how quick. Watch the incredible performance of this master . . . And because it is a performance we watch, with fascination, with admiration, in the end perhaps with acceptance tinged with boredom. Such a man can carry votes with him; he cannot lift our hearts nor stir, our brain...
...November was best known for his pioneering explanation of the gaps between actual and potential gross national product. Called "Okun's law," it will be a major tool for the Administration in deciding how much of an excise tax cut will be needed to give the economy a lift...