Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York Stock Exchange, abuzz for the past few years with big consolidations in oil, steel and transportation, the reaction was swift and positive. Investors sensed that a new rush was developing toward stocks of communications companies, portending more big mergers and fast price rises. ABC stock shot up $31, to nearly $106, and issues of some other companies in the field also climbed sharply. At week's end CBS had gained 20 1/4, to 108 3/ 4, and RCA, parent of NBC, had risen 4 7/8, to 42 7/8. Newspaper publishers Gannett and Knight-Ridder were...
...Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher applying body English during an earnest conversation with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, and noting the poignantly graceful passage of sari- clad Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi." Amfitheatrof was covering Mikhail Gorbachev's successful visit to Britain last December when Ustinov's death caused Gorbachev to rush back to Moscow. Amfitheatrof also hurried back, canceling plans to join his wife and two daughters for Christmas in Rome...
...keep up with demand. Since the American Nanny Plan opened in Claremont, Calif., in 1983, some 2,000 families have written to ask about hiring one of its 36 graduates. Desperate couples have even been known to underwrite a trainee's tuition to ensure her services after graduation. The rush, says Judith Bunge, founder of North American Nannies Inc., in Columbus, "is because of the high number of working mothers with children under...
...appeal of much independent music is too narrow to interest many radio stations, so the little companies must find other ways to promote and sell their wares. Tom Rush, a popular folk singer of the 1960s who started his own Night Light label in 1976, boosts his mail-order sales with ads in The New Yorker. Manhattan's Select Records gave its rap single Roxanne, Roxanne (sales: 300,000) a fast start last November by persuading music-store clerks to blast the song on their sound systems, a promotion ploy that bigger companies had overlooked...
Bermuda is not a big place--it takes less time to traverse the island than to get to Logan during a pre-Thanksgiving rush-hour. Whether you spend your afternoons taking tea at the Mid-ocean Club or resting up from a night at the Forty Thieves--a Hamilton hotspot--it's clear that on an island where you are recognized by their license plate, a strong sense of community prevails...