Word: panics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...continuing budget restraint and somehow reducing defense spending. Kansas' Robert Dole, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, toured boardrooms, banks and the markets and came back to Washington bearing the same message from Reagan boosters in the world of finance: Hundreds of billions in new debt could cause panic. Democrats, confused and flummoxed for a year, are making similar sounds. The old swamp fox of the Senate, Russell Long of Louisiana, tumbled into a limousine the other day with a Republican Senator and drawled, "I want to help the President." Translation: there is a majority forming in Congress...
...transformers. These made possible the wide-scale use of electricity. By 1900, Westinghouse's enterprises were valued at $120 million and employed about 50,000 workers. Then, as now, risk takers can run into trouble. Westinghouse was forced out as head of the companies during the financial panic...
...middle ground is no-man's land. On the balance sheet, the pickings still look rich. The size of the industry more than doubled in a decade, from $1.66 billion worth of sales in 1970 to $3.68 billion in 1980. But that growth was maintained at great cost. Panic set in back in 1979 when dollar volume for the business tumbled 11%. Now, after cutbacks and corporate scrambling, the major labels have regained some of their equilibrium...
...knew December would be a learning experience...I'm not going to hit the panic button yet," he says...
That is hardly heartwarming. But neither is it cause for depression or panic selling, says Dow Watcher and Market Analyst William M. LeFevre, 54, of the New York investment firm of Purcell, Graham & Co. The market, he says, is behaving as it almost always has during the first year of a Republican Administration...