Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Farm supports, meanwhile, rose more than 500%, to $25.8 billion in 1986. Notes Journalist Alfred Malabre Jr. in his book Beyond Our Means: "In 1984, less than 20% of all direct Governmental aid to agriculture went to farmers ! who were financially distressed. In other words, for every $1 going to needy farmers, some $4 was winding up with prosperous ones...
...France, vanished into thin air. Volume on the New York exchange topped 600 million shares, nearly doubling the all-time record. Brokers could find only one word to describe the rout, an old word long gone out of fashion but resurrected because no other would do: panic. The frenzy rose as it spread once again around the globe. On Tuesday stock prices fell by 12.2% in London, 15% in Tokyo, 6% in Paris and 6.7% in Toronto, on top of huge losses Monday...
...Wall Street. Despite a lukewarm reaction in the New York financial community to the President's statements, prices on the Big Board steadied, perhaps from exhaustion. The Dow average eked out a .33 gain to close the week at 1950.76. Two bits of news helped: the Consumer Price Index rose at an annual rate of only 2.1% in September, less than half the 5.8% pace in August; the GNP grew at an annual rate of 3.8%, after adjustment for inflation, in the third quarter, up from 2.5% in the second quarter. Those figures seemed to indicate that the American economy...
Amid these concerns, there is a striking consensus in the political community over the extent to which the stocks of individual candidates rose and fell with the oscillations on the Big Board. Here is how political traders assess the current market prospects for some 1988 contenders...
...with a mesh support, so that the shapes seemed to hang in the air. The relatively sedate movement of form in Stella's earlier work became an agitated, dense array, and the vividness of color seemed to have gone over the edge of decorum: a demotic yawp of rose, cerise, blue, sulfur-yellow, greens and oranges, scribbled and slathered onto the baroque shapes of French curve and drafter's template, and heightened with jarring patches of colored glitter...