Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This was accomplished by replacing two of the stodgier performers, Chrysler and Esmark (formerly Swift & Co., the meat packer), with glamorous Merck & Co. and IBM, which is the market's most popular growth stock. Their inclusion reflects the rising importance of technology and drug companies in the economy and stands to make the Dow somewhat more volatile. Both companies' shares have risen substantially in value over the past two decades (Merck has more than tripled, IBM has quintupled), and relatively high-priced stocks usually have sharper swing than do lower-priced ones. Had IBM and Merck replaced Chrysler...
...familiar characters of Rocky move through a full circle from the emotional highpoint of Rocky's first fight against the Muhammad Ali-figure of his world-champion opponent. Rocky tries doing commercials, getting a white-collar job, getting his old meat-hauling job, and even toting water in the old gym. These scenes depart most from the old Rocky, but they're also the most deadly in the new film. Sure enough, eventually both Rocky's instincts and the need for something more exciting to end the movie with than Rocky staring at his comatose wife force Stallone to backtrack...
...meat has been held up by a truck shortage in Midwestern beef states like Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota. In Detroit, Frederick & Herrud, a meat processor, was forced to shut down its hog-slaughtering facility and lay off 900 workers because no hogs were arriving. Normally the plant butchers 16,000 hogs a week. Other meat-plant workers were laid off in Iowa, Nebraska and Oklahoma...
...week's end, however, meat was moving again in most parts of the country...
...Soviets are especially hard up for corn for livestock feed. They need large quantities because they are trying to increase their cattle herds to put more meat into the cereal-heavy Soviet diet...