Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speaks in slow, solemn tones, the markets often quake. Early last year he told a group of bankers that the U.S. was "lurching toward a national economic emergency." That same day the Dow Jones index dropped 18 points. One day last week bond prices rallied, in part on the rumor that Kaufman was turning optimistic, only to lose momentum when the story proved to be false. Kaufman believes in personal as well as financial discipline: he has no hobbies and rises regularly at 5:55 a.m. to reach his office by 7:30. But he still has hints of flair...
Furthermore, "This sort of thing happens every five years or so" as quoted in the article was in fact the end of my actual statement: "I hear this sort of thing happens every five years or so." It was a reference to a rumor rather than a dismissal of a warning, a distinction which responsible reporting should have made. It was also inappropriate for Kolodziej to quote me in this context at all because, as I explained to him at the time, as manager I am not directly responsible for the production of halftime shows. Marcia Ann Ellard H.U.B. Manager
...yearbook article, written by Jared S. Corman '81 of Adams House, describes the House as "a haven for homosexuality. Rumor has it that the ratio is one to one to one or one to one to one too many...
Steven N. Fine '82, editor in chief of the 1981 yearbook, said yesterday he did not find the article offensive to gays or to Adams House. "Corman was trying to show that Adams House is more than its stereotypes. He wrote, 'Rumor has it'; he was not presenting facts. It is not malicious; I don't think it is derogatory. I apologize to anyone who was offended, but I do not apologize to anyone who was offended, but I do not apologize for running the article...
...Yorkais say, for le nitty-gritty. Rumor has it that the celebrated Algonquin serves bad food. "This information is absolutely erroneous. In fact, it is very bad." At Tavern on the Green, they serve a banana cheesecake "that would have smothered Desdemona faster than her pillow." At the "21" Club, which is not a club at all but a place to be seen, the cuisine is "irregular: one time it's bad, another time it's worse." At P.J. Clarke's, they serve un hamburger that is "both cooked to death and cold and even an English...