Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Investors who buy commodity-futures contracts bet on whether the price of such staples as silver and soybeans will rise or fall. Now they can earn truly heady rewards from wine futures...
...PERFORMANCES which partake of Serban's subcamp shenanigans generally work the best. Thomas Derrah's Wong, a cringing and bitter waterseller, is another doozy in this actor's slow rise to the top of the ART company. In the last few seasons he has threatened to supplant John Bottoms place as The Best Thing About the ART. Sandra Shipley brings back fond memories of the Anna Mae Wong School of Oriental Acting as the avaricious...
Many bond investors have been taking a bath, since the price of fixed- income securities falls when interest rates rise. In April alone, bondholders lost more than $100 billion. The pain was shared by small investors who have poured money into bond mutual funds. At the end of March, those funds had assets of nearly $310 billion, up from $142 billion at the end of 1985. The mortgage market was also hard hit by the rise in interest rates. Says Lyle Gramley, chief economist of the Mortgage Bankers Association: "Some people called it orderly panic in the bond market...
...term trend. On this issue economists are divided. Goldman Sachs Economist Robert Giordano declares that the recent run-up will prove short lived. He expects rates to fall below 8% by the end of the year. Kaufman, of Salomon Brothers, is characteristically pessimistic, predicting that long-term rates will rise by nearly a percentage point, to 9.5%, by the end of the year...
...illustrate your story on the rise of racism on U.S. campuses ((EDUCATION, April 6)), you used a poster from Northern Illinois University showing a swastika, to which someone had added the Greek letters of Sigma Chi. The fraternity was in no way responsible for the poster or the Greek letters on it. Members cooperated with the university administration and the black students' organization in dealing with the related tense situation and even offered a reward for the identification of the creators of the poster...