Word: old
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrive to make the market look fairly attractive. The last two bull markets started during recessions, after interest rates fell and investors began to sense recovery ahead. Also, stocks now are cheap. Corporate profits have almost doubled in the past four years, but many blue-chip stocks of big, old companies are selling at mid-1975 prices. The increasing number of corporate takeover bids suggests how undervalued they are. The Dow industrials are selling at 93% of book value, the worth of the assets minus the liabilities and divided by the number of shares outstanding. Thus it is much cheaper...
...strapping old gentleman with the shock of white hair bounces his canoe off rocks in Wyoming's Powder River, then runs it aground. He gives a sharp kick to a cooler and stomps on his spanking new backpack. Eccentric behavior, it would appear, but Sheldon Coleman, 77, has an ironclad defense if forest rangers should arrive with a straitjacket: "Is there any reason why the chairman of the board can't test the products...
Obscure fact often mixes with popular fancy, fuzzing up the truth and perpetuating legend. The old story of Thomas Jefferson's rumored love affair with a slave is opened for fresh examination in a new novel, Sally Hemings, by Barbara Chase-Riboud. The late Agatha Christie's brief, unexplained disappearance during her first marriage inspired a fictional explanation in the book and movie Agatha, which intensified speculation about the case and could stretch it out for years to come...
...like to play on a contending club, feel what it's like to go into a clubhouse every day and know you're going to be in the thick of a pennant race." The experience, Joe says, is so good it's almost like the old days in the backyard. "Pitching for me now," says Joe Niekro, "is just like going out and playing catch...
...academics isn't everything. St. Petersburg black Community Leader Harry Harvey, whose six-year-old daughter is bused daily, is pleased. "Now it's just like it was in the Army," says Harvey. "You go to the PTA and sit beside each other at football games and you say, 'Hey, you're just like anybody else...