Word: lull
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while, stock analysts were happily forecasting an "upside breakout" that would lead the market to a new alltime high above the January 1973 peak of 1051.70. Though business began to slow in April, economists in and out of Government remained convinced that it was just a temporary lull. Investors' expectations remained high, and the Dow hovered around 1000 through most of the summer...
...usual, many investors are overreacting to what could still be a temporary, if prolonged, lull in business and an overwrought perception of what a Carter Administration might mean for business. Says Newton Zinder, chief economist of E.F. Hutton: "The outlook for the market still appears good, though it is lower than most expectations...
...guiding light" to continue functioning as it has been. This doesn't mean all-out struggles must continue, Hofheinz says: "The spiritual factor doesn't have to do-with politics; it's a psychological factor." He believes that worries over China's precarious economic situation will impose a temporary lull on spiritual exhortation. But even in the later ranges of history he says, "swings will probably not be so violent as they were when Mao was at the helm. We're going to have many hands at the tiller now; so turns will take longer to develop, will be more...
...Democratic National Convention may have been "the lull before the lull," but the Republican National Convention (Aug. 23) made me proud to be an independent...
...there comes a time, in every interview, a lull in the questioning. Then my interviewer pawed the sheet in front of him and snorted, "Well, what books have you read recently?" and then appended, "Why did you waste your time on all this science fiction crap?" and looked up at me expectantly through his reading glasses...