Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students across the country last week were preparing to put aside their books and head home for the holidays. But the festive mood at two colleges was abruptly snapped by fiery disasters...
...laughed and sat down to talk at a round table in the ornate Rubaiyat room. As is the case with so many events in the Middle East today, the participants hardly seemed able to believe where they were or what they were doing. Premier Begin joined in the euphoric mood. Before leaving for Washington, he had greeted an Israeli negotiator by telephone: "Shalom, shalom, how is the weather in Cairo? Sunny and cold?" The Israeli shouted in delight that he could see the pyramids. "Look at them, you had a part in [building] them," joked Begin...
There are several reasons for the optimism. Truck sales are setting records, indicating that buyers are still in a spending mood. German and Japanese makers are raising the prices of the cars they sell in the U.S. by 3% to 4%, reflecting the rise of their nations' currencies against the dollar and promising less stiff import competition to Detroit. More important, the domestic industry has come up with some hot new or redesigned models. GM has heavily scored with a new four-door Chevette. Ford's Fairmont and Zephyr, which have replaced the Maverick and the Comet...
Mile High Stadium has always been a topographically accurate name for Denver's biggest sports playground. But last week "Mile High" was an understatement for the mood of a city with a fast-improving pro hockey team, a division-leading team in the National Basketball Association, a football team on the top of the National Football League and its first major league baseball team apparently ready to move into town...
...bull markets, and some computer-equipped analysts now think that the Dow could lumber up to 950 or even 1050 by late 1978 or early 1979. Maybe -but that sounds all too reminiscent of the wrong predictions being made a year ago, when Wall Street's mood was one of relative cheer...