Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Program Trading. On Black Monday, the N.Y.S.E. ordered a halt to certain kinds of computer-aided trades in which brokers send huge waves of buy or sell orders through the markets with a few taps on a keyboard. Those emergency restrictions are still in effect, and there is considerable sentiment for making them permanent. But even as program trading was emerging as everybody's favorite scapegoat, evidence was mounting that the practice had played a smaller role in the market's collapse than suspected. According to figures released last week by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, program trading accounted for less...
...There's a very strong community sentiment against a strike," Wellington said. "I know the university is going to work very hard to avoid one," she said...
Again, Barfly would be a good movie if it didn't constantly ram the sentiment down our throats that art can only flourish in sordid surroundings. I had no objection to Henry's choosing poverty over wealth, if that's what made him comfortable. But I didn't see why I and the rest of the audience should wallow in voyeuristic guilt over not having done the same thing. There's something much too pat and easy about a writer who presents his own lifestyle as the only possible way to live the creative life...
...They simply outplayed us," Tri-Captain Kate Felson said--a sentiment echoed by several teammates...
...writing the story, was unconvinced by Hite's book. "I don't believe the world is as bleak for women as she says," Wallis observes. Associate Editor Martha Smilgis agrees. "I am surprised at how fast some men are changing to meet the new demands of working women." That sentiment was echoed by New York Correspondent Wayne Svoboda, who found the male experts he interviewed virtually (and, cynics might say, predictably) unanimous in their objection to Hite's indictment of masculine behavior. "The book makes men sound like smugly apathetic brutes who don't care about depriving women of emotional...