Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even some institutions began to follow the trends. By day's end, the ticker tape was trailing badly in its race to stay apace of the action, and no wonder. January 8 saw a new trading record--93.7 million shares--10 per cent higher than the ebullient buying spree triggered by Reagan's November triumph. And there was no doubt about the direction of the sudden spurt. Prices on the Big Board fell 23.8 points...
...combination, however, is not entirely sanguine. Twenty-five years ago, Neil dreamed up an elaborate and touching Christmas present for his kid brother. He found an impoverished family with a father who was a drunk and out of work, and Neil took the wife and child on a shopping spree. The parallels to the Reagans' own childhood are evident, and whatever moved Neil to emphasize the parallels remains obscure. But the gift was one of immense ingenuity and generosity?because the shopping spree was given in Ronald's name. Yet when it was presented to Reagan, along with a poem...
Nothing would give the wavering U.S. economy more of a holiday spirit pick-me-up than an old-fashioned yuletide spending spree. The brief period between Thanksgiving and Christmas is the most important time of the year for many retailers, who can often earn up to 50% of their annual profits during those four or five weeks. But with the 1980 Christmas shopping season almost half over, prospects are steadily dimming for the sort of year-end stampede that might help prevent the economy's slipping back into a slump early next year...
...Strouse persuasively argues, does not appear to have been an unconscious one. Her sometime-philosopher father, Henry senior, had little interest in the education of women; through much of Alice's life he remained blissfully unaware of her development. In an extraordinary letter which he wrote during a shopping spree in New York, he told her that he had picked up a "half-hundred" foreign photographs for William. "But they are too dear to permit me to buy any fancy ones for you," the letter continued, "...If I had only brought a little more money with me!" Later...
...minutes of the second half, and pushing their lead to 68-52, the Crimson cagers ran off a string of 16 unanswered points for their biggest lead of the night (32). Trout combined tough rebounding on both ends of the floor with six points to spark the Crimson scoring spree...