Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shouldn't corporations be made to do the same with stockholders' money? The difference, George Will explained wearily, was that a disgruntled union member had no choice about belonging to the union, but a stockholder who didn't like what a corporation was doing could simply sell his stock. Mike's wife said, "Why don't you sell your ADM stock...
...financial year of recession since the oil crisis of 1974. But this time the statistics are a little late with the story: "Japan has effectively been in a depression for four to five years," says TIME business columnist Daniel Kadlec. "They've been in a psychological recession since the stock market peaked in 1989. People who put all their money in equities then will never recover...
Americans seem happy to share their wealth: they gave $143 billion to charities in 1997, up 7% from 1996, according to figures out last week. Religious and health groups got the most. Tip: instead of cash, donate appreciated stock, which you can deduct at market value without paying capital-gains...
...thunder out of Asia rolled into Russia last week, shaking the already wobbly economy and its twitchy investors. A spate of panic selling sent the stock market plunging and plunging, and it ended the week worth half as much as it was a year ago. Even before the bubble popped in Thailand, South Korea and Indonesia, Boris Yeltsin's government was living dangerously. It was juggling $150 billion in foreign debt, running huge budget deficits and resorting to a kind of pyramid scheme in which it was selling new treasury bills to pay interest on those it had sold earlier...
...were starting to make the move from radio to TV, like My Favorite Husband, the radio show Ball had co-starred in for three years. Lucy Ricardo was, in those early I Love Lucy episodes, just a generic daffy housewife. Ethel (Vivian Vance), her neighbor and landlady, was a stock busybody. Desi Arnaz, as bandleader Ricky Ricardo, hadn't yet become one of the finest straight men in TV history. William Frawley, as Fred Mertz, seemed a Hollywood has-been in search of work, which...