Word: rebounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rebound began almost five years ago, when stores specializing in classic and current comics started to sprout in shopping centers. Today there are about 4,000 such dealers, who account for 50% of U.S. comic-book sales. As always, success has inspired imitators. B. Dalton and Waldenbooks have begun carrying comics in most of their 1,753 bookstores. Supermarkets, which account for about 35% of magazine sales, still resist the trend, on the ground that comic books attract loitering youths. Nonetheless, the Waldbaum, Pathmark and Safeway chains have decided that Archie Comics are clean-cut enough to be displayed...
...after regrouping at halftime, the Crimson took control. Four minutes into the second half, Zeeben drilled a penalty kick past Friars goalkeeper Kathy Cronin. Six minutes later, senior forward Sevier seized a rebound of her own shot and knocked it into the Providence cage for a 2-0 Crimson lead...
Crimson senior Electa Sevier collected the game's first score with about 11 minutes gone in the first half. Vermont goalie Jen Starr stopped a Lori Barry header off a corner kick, but when Starr couldn't contain the ball, Sevier was there to kick the rebound in for a 1-0 Harvard lead...
...potentially more serious inflation threat is a rebound in the cost of oil. Since the members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed in early August on a new pact to reduce production, oil prices have jumped from $11.55 per bbl. to more than $14. But the OPEC agreement expires on Oct. 31, and it is not at all certain to be renewed...
...Bear Stearns, a New York brokerage firm, and a Tisch family friend: "He's not a herd follower." Last year, for example, Tisch bought seven oil supertankers for a fraction of what it would have cost to build them. He is betting that the distressed oil industry will eventually rebound. Tisch is self-deprecating about his financial ability. "I've been lucky," he shrugs...