Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Coop, that huge emporium where eager students throng each semester to stock up on textbooks and toothpaste, has purchased retail space in Kendall Square for the construction of "a modern, enlarged store that will enable us to provide better service to our members," said Argeros...
...replacement for the last one to go dead was lost in last August's Titan rocket explosion. The single eye is expected to function for at least another year. Until its new Titans start to become available in 1988, the Air Force has some crisis protection: a known stock of 13 older Titan IIs that are already being refurbished as launch vehicles, and some 40 Titan D2 missiles that are being removed from their silos and could be modified...
...popular new Paris restaurant down the street from the bustling French Bourse, or stock exchange, diners play a different sort of market while they eat. The price of each item on the menu rises or falls by as much as 20% according to consumer demand. An IBM personal computer at the bar continuously recalculates the prices, and a printout from the machine provides steady commentary, like the bulletins on a stock ticker: "Relance de haddock" (Haddock on the rebound) or "Pieds de cochon en vif recul" (Pigs' feet dropping fast). The restaurant is a hit, explains one of the owners...
...volatility should be dampened somewhat by the return to the market of more small investors, who tend to leave their money in one place longer than portfolio managers do. Individuals by the millions have been switching to stocks and mutual funds because of their growing dissatisfaction with the shrinking returns on money-market accounts. Richard Bonner, a flower grower in Fallbrook, Calif., near San Diego, happened to boost his stake in the market just one day before the 100-point surge began. He then watched in delight last week as his $150,000 portfolio blossomed by an additional...
...Sexton, president of the market-forecasting firm Harmonic Research: "I have been urging investors since September not to stand in the way of this beast. Wall Street is littered with the bodies of traders who underestimated the power of this bull market." Others see a worrisome possibility that the stock market will lose any realistic relationship with economic growth. Says De Lutis: "If the market has a substantial rise and gets way ahead of the economy, then it would be a risky situation." In the months ahead, high-riding investors may want to look back over their shoulders occasionally...