Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...during the New York-based Metropolitan Opera touring performance of Macbeth, she was risking more than a chill: the city's tough new antinudity ordinance, aimed chiefly at topless dancers, could have brought quick arrest. Two division commanders of the local police were on the scene. Would they rush the cauldron and haul its contents off to the slammer...
Right now Biggs is particularly concerned about the headlong rush to high-tech stocks. He calls this "classic overspeculation," yet he is not bearish about the overall market trend. He foresees some degree of correc ion, but not the 10% to 15% anticipated by many of his Wall Street colleagues. He still strongly favors blue-chip companies that will benefit most from a slowdown in inflation: IBM, GE, American Bell and 3M. Lower oil prices and interest rates, he says, could keep the bulls going. Biggs last week, using Churchill's famous quote, said the bull market...
...field last year in his first N.F.L. season, Kush is 0-9 this year in the Supreme Court, which decided that he would have to defend himself against charges stemming from a sideline assault case brought by a former punter at Arizona State. That incident four seasons ago ended Rush's prosperous 22-year college coaching career. Probably Elway did not crave Kush's style of discipline...
...while Harvard was missing several scoring opportunities and committing several key fouls. UMass was priming itself for Bevelander's rush...
...reform in 1957, average test scores were actually higher than they are now. From 1963 to 1980, the average scores on Scholastic Aptitude Tests fell more than 50 points in verbal skills (to 424 out of 800) and 36 points in math (to 466). And there was a pronounced rush from tougher to easier or "more relevant" subjects (see chart...