Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wall Street professionals have always been skeptical of the Barnumesque Granville, and Big Money managers in charge of directing the investments for mutual funds and pension portfolios decided that they could pick up some bargains because stocks had fallen too far. The big institutions lumbered in to buy solid stocks like General Electric, which was trading at its year's low of $52 a share, Burlington Northern, available at a near giveaway morning low of $36%, and Exxon, offered at a fire sale $30 a share. Said Michael Sherman, director of stock research for the Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb...
...comfortable margin of victory surprised some runners, who had expected a close squeeze. "We didn't know what to expect out there, today," said Coach Bill McCurdy, "Our teams are quite similar and I'm happy we had such a solid...
...second example concerns America using the Dutch to send a signal--this time to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Holland was a founding member of NATO and despite a reputation for laxity--a long-hair and unionized army--it has always been a solid citizen of the alliance. But the Dutch never took much interest in the politics of the Cold War, hoping that the missiles, if they ever flew, would pass over European soil...
Playing on a Business School field dampened by pre-game rains, the two squads traded sliding tackles and near misses for 110 minutes in a game characterized by solid end-to-end action...
...ticket, Nicholas Nickleby is a bargain: 81/2 solid hours of magic...