Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stock-market crash was a dramatic test not only of the world's financial institutions but of the world press as well. The dizzying swiftness of the collapse, its global dimension, the complexity of the underlying economic issues -- everything about it challenged journalism's ability to distill meaning out of fast-breaking news. So I am gratified to report that TIME's coverage of Black Monday has earned a John Hancock Award for Excellence, one of the most respected U.S. prizes for business and financial journalism. The citation lauded "The Crash," our Nov. 2, 1987, package of cover stories...
...erected GO MURRAY billboards and even staged a pep rally starring Country Singer Larry Gatlin. The firm's board has rejected Electrolux's offers of $48 and $52 a share, but Wall Street investors think Electrolux is prepared to offer even more. Anticipating another bid, they sent Murray's stock to a high of $64 last week...
...Cassandras with apocalyptic new ideas. Jack Kemp's earnest seminars on gold-bug economics went the way of Pete du Pont's Iowa lectures on the evils of farm subsidies. Bruce Babbitt's budgetary bravery proved that press puffery persuades few primary voters. Dick Gephardt's political stock soared only after he softened his overheated it's-midnight-in-A merica rhetoric...
...countries have made, individually and collectively, in carrying out the policies to which we committed ourselves at earlier summits. Although we can look back at a number of positive developments since we met a year ago in Venice, and can congratulate ourselves on having weathered last October's dramatic stock-market storm, we have been forced to confront an unpleasant truth: we have not lived up to our past pledges and thus are not doing as much as we could to ensure continued growth for our own countries and for the world economy...
...fact, the lengthy search had become highly embarrassing. Part of the problem was a rift between the faculty, which wanted a professional journalist, and the university administration, which sought someone with a more academic background. As many as three candidates were reportedly offered the job but declined after taking stock of the school's troubles. Rising costs for students (now $20,000 a year), a deteriorating physical plant and a fractious faculty have led many educators to conclude that Columbia, the most prestigious journalism school in the country, is resting on its laurels. "It needs a shot...