Word: rightnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Front Runner Ronald Reagan will formally enter. It is the view of several public opinion analysts that Americans will sip their Christmas eggnog and ask themselves one final question about the incumbent: What in Carter's three-year White House behavior makes one think he would do the right thing in a second term? If there are no new achievements in economics, energy and foreign policy, they will turn elsewhere...
...quiet House chamber was occupied by 243 members when Lolita Lebron, a Puerto Rican Nationalist, walked rapidly down an aisle in the visitors' gallery. She held a German automatic pistol with both hands, pointed it at Speaker Joe Martin and shouted: "Puerto Rico is not free." Right behind her, two other Nationalists, Rafael Cancel Miranda and Andres Figueroa Cordero, held similar guns and sprayed the House floor with bullets. Martin escaped behind a column, but five Congressmen were wounded. The attacking trio were quickly seized. A fourth member of the plot, Irving Flores Rodriguez, was arrested...
...kerosene lamp. Conditions are crowded, but no more so than in the refugee camps of Thailand, Malaysia and Hong Kong. "The people here know only fishing," observed Hoang Quoi Hung, 47, a former seafood-industry official from Haiphong. "They think that any place they can fish is all right...
Another bullish factor is that investors have put a large cache of cash in short-term securities and money-market funds, and it is available to switch into equities when the time is right. This pile has been conservatively valued at $65 billion. Another $4 billion to $5 billion also could come into the market from Europe, where record amounts of cash have been stuffed into short-term securities. The Europeans are waiting to see if the Carter Administration is serious about defending the dollar and beating back inflation by maintaining tight fiscal and monetary policies...
...fearful of missing the market altogether. Explains Research Director John Groome: "We may be premature, but we are going to be there when the market explodes on the upside." That is widely expected to occur when inflation, interest rates and the dollar show signs of moving in the right direction. As Christopher Johnson of Lloyds Bank in Britain says of Wall Street's future: "There is a boom market out there, but not for a few more months...