Word: slided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Following a slide lecture on Monday by architect Douglas Shand Tucci '72, Dudley House will host a dinner for its members and affiliates. The following night, Dudley will be the scene of a country dance, and Wednesday night lutinist Hopkinson Smith '70 will give a recital open to all undergraduates...
Less than a week before, the four-year-old bull market had hit a new Dow peak of 1919.71. But that made stocks increasingly vulnerable to a long- dreaded deep "correction." Once the slide started last Thursday, it picked up incredible speed because of so-called program trading -- computer- triggered waves of selling. By 11 a.m., the Dow had sunk almost 30 points. "It was remarkable," said Marvin Breen, a trader for Merrill Lynch. "I looked up at the screen, and it was down 20 points. Five minutes later it was down 30. Five minutes later it was down...
...squelched, was that Ronald Reagan had suffered a heart attack. Most of the other rumors involved speculation about renewed inflation and higher interest rates, the traditional enemies of stocks. At one point, word spread that two governors of the Federal Reserve believed interest rates, on a long two-year slide, had bottomed out. One broker was so confident of the information, which turned out to be false, that he told a client to call back in a few minutes for a full text of the Fed governors' remarks...
...Another question about the B-school is why it has not been more outspoken on issues like business ethics. Indeed, the school has suffered a few ethical embarrassments of its own. Last spring academic eyebrows went up when it was revealed that a business-school professor gave a slide presentation at a seminar to National Football League executives, allegedly on a strategy for putting the United States Football League out of business, which seems to have happened. The Harvard seminar was cited as evidence in the recent and largely unsuccessful antitrust suit brought by the U.S.F.L. against the N.F.L...
Life on earth is actually older than previously thought, said Professor of Biology Andrew H. Knoll, who began the symposium, "Prospects for Life: Then and Now," with a slide show...