Word: rumoring
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Nothing excites Wall Street more than a hot rumor. After months of dismal economic reports, investors were ready to jump on anything that hinted that the recession was bottoming out. They got their chance last Tuesday when word spread in the stock market that the University of Michigan's early January survey of consumer sentiment would show a dramatic upturn. The results of this particular poll were greatly anticipated because it was taken shortly after the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates at the end of December. Word of the alleged rebound in consumer confidence caused the Dow Jones industrial average...
...mistook fatigue for love for only two years, but that was long enough to give rise to a rumor more virulent than the Asian flu that she was racing around Manhattan to fertility specialists trying to get pregnant. The sad truth is that she was consulting cancer doctors who saw her through breast surgery for a malignant tumor...
There were lots of reasons for the throw weight of the rumor. If true, it gave the lie to her belief that the single life was worth living, that a family consists of the people we are tied to by the work we share and < friendship as well as by blood. If false, it was still an excellent occasion for schadenfreude by those who suspected without proof that she was a cunning hypocrite and who, incidentally, resented the way she could blast men as a group for their piggishness but nevertheless attract a succession of highly appealing ones who adored...
...word has it that 80 Iraqi military officers were executed for attempting a coup. Another day the rumor is that 76 Iraqis and Egyptians were put to death for mounting an anti-Saddam demonstration south of Baghdad. Still another day brings the story that former Iraqi Prime Minister Saadoun Hammadi and 24 high-ranking army officers were shot for a coup attempt...
...MAXWELL WAS KILLED! A rumor among cynical Israeli journalists is that Maxwell was an agent for the Mossad, Israel's spy agency. Thus Israel's enemies rubbed him out. Or was it that the Mossad executed Captain Bob to prevent him from exposing secrets? Or did he launder millions from secret arms sales to Iran and get killed "to shut him up." Then there's the one that Maxwell was hammered by New York Mafia hit men angry about layoffs at the Daily News. Or maybe...