Word: return
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trip fall tickets. A typical reduction would cut the cheapest Chicago-San Francisco fare from $323 to $198. The heavily restricted discounts apply to tickets purchased by Sept. 1 for U.S. flights from Sept. 9 to Dec. 15. Other airlines quickly matched the cut-rate fares. Eastern, struggling to return to the air despite a long strike by machinists, said it would offer discounts with fewer restrictions beginning Sept...
...even as investors take comfort in sound fundamentals, they look with alarm at the return of the greedy speculation and electronic sorcery that are blamed for the crash. The market has reacted with near hysteria to the possibility of takeovers, first in the communications industry in response to the Time-Warner deal and now in the airline business in the wake of bids for the companies that own Northwest and United Airlines. The takeover-stock mania has coincided with the return of program trading, a system in which brokerage houses use computers to buy and sell giant blocks of stock...
Another reason for nervousness right now is the too-good-to-last superstition. "This could be the eighth up year in a row," says Morgan Stanley's Byron Wien. "That's never happened in this century." During this bull cycle, U.S. stocks have produced a compounded 17% annual return, almost twice their historic 9% average. Even during the crash year of 1987, the Dow managed to rise...
...After the new chastity, it's a return to sin," proclaimed the French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur. It is the lambada, a sensuous dance that sets the pelvis-to-pelvis physicality of Dirty Dancing to a steamy Brazilian beat. Spawned on the northeast coast of Brazil, the lambada has swept through France this summer. A soda commercial showing young bodies entwined in a lambada frenzy was an instant hit, and Lambada, a song that served as the ad's sound track, has sold more than 1 million copies...
...country where only three females have ever held Cabinet posts, the appointments seemed a welcome change. But the L.D.P. still has a way to go in reforming itself. Kaifu, 58, attained his office by deal-making with ousted leaders Noboru Takeshita and Shintaro Abe; in return for their help, Kaifu awarded their factions powerful Cabinet positions. And Kaifu was already bedeviled by unfounded rumors of sexual misconduct...