Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many brokers and investors, it is all getting rather scary. How long, they ask, can the market keep going up and up in a straight line? After all, as one of the oldest of all Wall Street cliches puts it, "Trees don't grow to the sky." Peter Furniss, a managing director at the brokerage firm of Smith Barney, Harris Upham, chooses a different metaphor. Says he: "It's like a college frat party. The music is loud, and everybody is having a wild time. But sooner or later, the cops are coming to bust up the party...
When Ray began work, there was a half-moon in the dark sky, circled with a ring of moisture giving promise of the humidity to come. The whippoorwills were still calling, although a yellow-billed cuckoo was sleepily experimenting with his daytime songs...
...scene at the bullring in Plasencia, Spain, was like a page from a % Hemingway novel -- almost. A chorus of "Ole! Ole!" greeted Matador Luis Reina as he stepped into the arena last week bedecked in his sky-blue, gold- embroidered suit of lights. But the cheers turned to jeers when the crowd noticed the letters A-K-A-I in red silk running down his sleeves and pant legs. For the first time, a matador had sold space on his costume for advertising. The Japanese electronics firm (the name translates as "red" in Japanese) is paying the 29-year...
Inflation, officially pegged at 20%, has risen sharply in the past 18 months. Wealthy shoppers in north Tehran can still find almost anything they want, including imported luxury goods, but at sky-high prices. Because the salaries of lower-paid workers have increased little if at all since the revolution, many have taken additional, part-time jobs. To help them cope with inflation, the government has issued special ration books permitting them to buy food staples for roughly a tenth of the price the same items would cost on the open market...
...people to fill entry- level jobs ((ECONOMY & BUSINESS, July 20)) that there is a group out there with disabilities who are ready and willing to work. My son is 20, mentally retarded and gainfully employed at McDonald's in Bakersfield, Calif. His functioning level and self-esteem have shot sky-high, and his employer has a dependable, capable employee who is happy to be working at any wage...