Word: sides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their long stampede, the bulls have managed at least temporarily to overcome their fears about the U.S. budget and trade deficits. Despite a dramatic slowdown in growth, they have been looking on the economy's bright side. "Investors now believe the Federal Reserve Board can deliver a 'soft landing' of subdued inflation by year-end, without a recession," says Byron Wien, chief domestic strategist for the investment firm Morgan Stanley, who since May has been predicting a new all-time high on the Dow. Elaine Garzarelli, a portfolio manager at Shearson Lehman Hutton, who was one of the few forecasters...
...Alison Akke, 15 months old and dressed in a dainty blue sundress, is lugging two horseshoe crabs by their spiny tails toward the water. Nearby, her mother Emma, 35, peers at one until it wriggles and then gingerly hauls it away. She and her daughter line up the crabs, side by side, along the beach just above the incoming tide. Besides saving some crabs, they have also tidied the sand, once littered with topsy-turvy animals. Quips Alison's mom: "Instead of mowing my grass, I come out here and clear my beach...
...huge banyan tree has heating coils in its roots to encourage the python to uncoil near the viewing glass. Not far away, an agile cliff-springer mountain goat is contained on the assumption that it will not jump eight feet to a ledge on the moat's far side that is constructed at a precise 30 degrees angle. "But," admits architect David Rice, "nobody has told the cliff springer that...
...problem. In some areas, college-public school partnerships seek to get minority students thinking about higher education at an early age and to nurture that goal through high school. "Once kids have the fever for college, you can do a lot of good," says Nathan Potts, principal of West Side High School in Newark, which was "adopted" by Ramapo College of New Jersey...
...woozy Wall Streeters are asking, Can a crash happen again? Is this boom any different from the last one? Despite such fears, investors have been looking on the economy's bright side...