Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many students and administrators credit this year's unusual success to the dynamism of a new fellowships director at the Office of Career Services (OCS). They add that better candidates may be applying to fellowship programs because the AIDS epidemic and the stock market crash have made other destinations--such as medical school and investment banking--less attractive...
Savoye attributed the rise in Stanford applications to the same factors, saying, "L.A. Law, [the stock market crash on] October 19 and all of the interest in the Bork and Ginsburg [Supreme Court confirmation] hearings made students more interested in the legal profession...
...evening of October 19--the day the stock market took its worst beating ever--an anxious senior called the analysts with whom he had worked the previous summer to find out the word on the Street. Though it was long after the market had closed, the would-be investment banker found that his friends were still at the offices of Bear Stearns & Co.--trying to make sense of Black Monday...
Those of us who don't buy into the widespread notion that intrinsic value is proportional to cost expected some relief from this decade's shopping spree after the stock market crashed last October. Perhaps now, we thought, the noveau riche investment bankers who have chased the "finer things in life" so vigorously will be forced to take a break. Maybe the heyday of Robyn Leach's pseudo-documentary Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, as well as all those economically patronizing advertisements, is finally over...
When spring roundup comes, few ranchers expect to find every head of cattle at once. Some are bound to stray; others might have fallen to illness or predators. But when Bart and Lilly O'Toole gathered in their stock from winter grazing in Nevada's Reese River Valley, they were dismayed to find 20 cows missing from a herd of 200. When none turned up on neighbors' lands or in Nevada stockyards, the O'Tooles knew that 10% of their herd had been rustled. Says Lilly O'Toole, 43: "I'm sure they're slaughtered and made into hamburger...