Word: skittishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Federal Reserve Board was showing signs of easing its tight-money policy. Interest rates were falling. At long last, it seemed that stocks should look attractive to skittish investors. But no one was at all prepared for the events that erupted: a torrent of trading volume and the swiftest, most spectacular price surge in the history of the New York Stock Exchange...
...that they can count on is being confronted with the following angry question: What in the world has gone wrong with Reaganomics? From the moment that President Ronald Reagan first proposed his fiscal 1982 budget 148 days ago, the mesmerizing specter of gargantuan federal deficits has haunted an already skittish U.S. economy. As the red ink has swelled, growth has sagged further and further, interest rates have lurched about unpredictably, and ever lengthening lines of jobless workers have begun coiling out from unemployment offices around the country...
European wavering, though, was not just a matter of a cash tradeoff. Now that Thatcher was moving militarily against the Argentines, her partners were becoming skittish. The Irish had already announced they could not support Britain in what Dublin saw as a colonial war by its former colonial masters. An important consideration for Italians was that nearly half of Argentina's population is of Italian origin, and 1.3 million Argentines still carry Italian passports...
Banking experts believe that Girard's system of fees is a prototype that may be widely copied. Surveys show, however, that a majority of small- and medium-sized banks are still skittish about sweeping new charges that might alienate customers. A study by Sheshunoff & Co., an Austin consulting firm, indicated that only 48% of U.S. banks have adopted maintenance charges for credit cards. More than 80% of the banks impose no fees on small savings accounts, and 75% offer free checking to senior citizens. Smaller banks are still looking for little ways to be generous. The Princeton Bank...
...romantic lead requires a more blithe, more innocently carefree personality than comes naturally to Rudolf Nureyev the world-wise and world-weary. Nureyev's cockiness and arrogance overpower principal dancer Marie-Christine Mouis (who alternates the role of Kitri-Dulcinea with Laura Young): in his arms, she seems nervous, skittish, more than a trifle unsure of her suitor's affections...