Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such widespread avoidance of Wall Street is producing some painfully quiet days for traders. A year ago, volume on the New York Stock Exchange often exceeded 200 million shares a day. Since the crash, it has typically reached just 160 million shares. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones average has drifted down from a high of 2169.45 three months ago to a low of 1978.66 during August. Last week the stock market was buoyed somewhat by a sharp improvement in U.S. trade: during July the spread between exports and imports narrowed to $9.5 billion, down from a $13.2 billion deficit the previous...
...past, companies that were hit by a virus generally kept it quiet. But the computer-sabotage trial in Fort Worth may be a sign that things are changing. Texas is one of 48 states that have passed new laws against computer mischief, and four years ago President Reagan signed a federal law that spelled out harsh penalties for unauthorized tampering with Government computer data. But most statutes were written before viruses surfaced as a major problem, and none mention them by name. In May an organization of programmers called the Software Development Council met in Atlanta to launch a movement...
Will it ever wake up one day and say to itself, "We will not say anything about the Red Sox being a sure lock for the American League East pennant until the last pitch of the last baseball game of the regular sesaon is thrown. We will keep quiet until then...
...proposition: will the city of Boston please keep quiet until the last pitch of the series is thrown? No mention of the magic number, no mention of trying to make the Series again to face the hated Mets...
Boston, keep quiet...