Word: propelled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...factor in the market's record for accurate economic prophecies is that they tend to be self-fulfilling. Economists generally agree that the market has at least some limited power to propel the economy. The effect is partly practical: rising share prices enable a company to use its stock to make acquisitions, or sell new shares to get cash to expand. But the biggest lift is psychological. A bull market puts executives in an expansive mood, as the worth of their stock options goes up, and raises the morale of employees, who see the value of their stake...
...split in the ruling elite coupled with the disaffection of the middle classes and the army leave slim possibilities for a smooth transition to stability under a Western-style political system. Whichever faction controls the government in the next few weeks, these conflicts will undermine any compromise and will propel the situation leftward. Though in the short run Juan Carlos and his rightist puppeteers have the initiative, in the long run the future of Spain depends on the actions of the left...
Well, not that much of a thing since the late Jacqueline Susann didn't write that kind of dirty books. It is at least enough of a thing, however, to propel January toward an older man, an adversary of her father's named Tom Colt (David Janssen). Colt's main grudge against Wayne: "He took my Pulitzer Prize novel and messed it up as a movie...
...mothers, among others. For them, society should provide some form of guaranteed income, an idea endorsed in the past by such conservatives as Richard Nixon and Milton Friedman. Conservatives note that it is better to give special help to problem groups than to pump up the whole economy and propel inflation...
...doggedly consistent this year than the stock market. For nearly six months, prices on Wall Street have climbed steadily higher, higher, higher as investors have shifted more and more cash into the market in anticipation of a brisk business upturn later in the year. Last week this confidence helped propel the Dow Jones industrial average up another 17.68 points, to a new 1975 high of 873.12. While that is still well below the Dow's alltime peak of 1051.7 in 1973, it nonetheless represents a hefty 50% rise since last December. No fewer than...