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There is considerable irony in the retreat by individuals. Virtually all of the stock market's current volatility has been made possible by computers. And these in turn were originally installed at New York's Big Board to offer easier, cheaper trading to tempt back small investors who had begun to flee to bonds and money-market accounts during the high-inflation '70s. In all, the Big Board spent $200 million on its modernization during the past five years. When the stock market perked up again starting in the early 1980s, the major institutional investors quickly spotted the advantages...
VIENNA, Austria--High level superpower arms control talks ended bitterly yesterday with the Soviet Union accusing the United States of a "complete retreat" from positions agreed to at the Iceland summit. Secretary of State George P. Shultz said "Star Wars" was still the sticking point...
...accused the U.S. side of a "complete retreat" from the October 11-12 summit meeting in Iceland between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev...
...time the massacre ended, the Crimson was rocking atop a lopsided 8-1 score--and the dazed Minutemen were beating a hasty retreat from Ohiri Field...
...provoke a twinge of concern. Does Sargent signal a retreat from the standards the Whitney has battled for -- the commitment to glitz that gave us the 1985 Biennial, the taste for inflated prettiness set forth in its Alex Katz retrospective, the reluctance to edit that made Eric Fischl's show such a letdown? True, Director Tom Armstrong valiantly tries to establish a link by pointing, in a catalog note, to Sargent's "highly expressive manner and his treatment of subject matter and narrative content, all of which are of great interest to contemporary artists." However, Sargent's "manner...