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...always possible, of course, that last week's market rally was simply the latest example of a well-known Wall Street phenomenon called the Super Bowl indicator. According to popular lore, the Dow Jones industrial average rises in years in which a team from the original National Football League wins the Super Bowl and declines when a member of the old American Football League is victorious. "Its reliability is uncanny," says Shearson Lehman's Furniss. That rule of thumb has been right in 16 of the past 18 years. So when the San Francisco 49ers of the original N.F.L. trounced...
...regulars ride in a regular car and get there on time to get a seat," admonishes a marketing man from the midst of a seated cluster of pinochle players. He offers the irregular rider further lore of the Long Island: "They have a total breakdown only about once a year, the kind of disaster you sense before you even get down the stairs at Penn Station. The crowd will be waiting shoulder to shoulder, and you will hear over the loudspeaker, 'Mmchshrum drillblitterich,' which translated means, 'Due to switch trouble, all Long Island trains will be delayed.' The only thing...
...tours are a lot more anecdotal, a lot more historical" than admissions tours, explains Carey M. York '85, co-president of the Crimson Key Society the group which provides student tour guides. The society also publishes a book, updated every five years, of Harvard lore and trivia, which guides sprinkle into their talks, York says...
...public opinion. Caplan's treatment of the insanity defense aims at discouraging us from seeing the defense as one or all of the following: an overused and therefore dangerous "legal loophole" (the words are, ironically, Richard M. Nixon's): a play-trial toy of the rich (the usual tabloid lore), or, thirdly, a legal contradiction (the view of behaviorists, who see free will as an illusion and absolve guilt for behavior caused by external forces. Such thinkers feel the judiciary must either bring the perpetrators of anti-social behavior into line by way of drugs, psychosurgery and therapy or, failing...
...drilling business called Sedco. The Sedco building is not a shiny tower but a set of refurbished woody offices housed in the shell of the first brick school in Dallas. The books that surrounded him were part of an 8,000-volume library of Texan history and lore that Clements has been collecting since the 1940s...