Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long will the celebration last? "Common sense tells you it's got to end," says Hugh Johnson, market strategist at First Albany Corp. But he also points out that on a trailing 12-month basis, the Dow is up 15% or more for 18 consecutive months--a streak unparalleled since the 1950s. As long as the Clinton-Congress stalemate holds, "it's very hard to shoot holes in this picture," he says...
...taking the lead from Locker, the team is relaxed going into the game, confident in its abilities and ready to extend its Harvard-record winning streak...
Beginning in late July, Penn made a series of four neuropersonality presentations to Clinton and the White House team at the regular Wednesday-night sessions. Where Morris talked a blue streak and presented his ideas as if they came from on high, Penn was soft-spoken, professorial. In the first meeting Penn outlined the issues of greatest concern to voters. The economy, cited as the pre-eminent concern of 60% of voters in 1992, was mentioned by only 20% of his sampling. At the top of Penn's list, along with chestnuts like crime prevention and the minimum wage, were...
...days later, their winning streak ended at nine when they played George Washington to a 2-2 tie. Following a 2-0 victory over Wright State, the unbeaten streak ended at 11, with two consecutive big-game losses...
Envious pollsters who are forced to use a much larger sampling might say my father's streak is just luck or that he voted for the right candidate for the wrong reasons. But my father votes in the majority for the same reason the majority does: he likes the winner better. "I vote for the best man regardless of the party," says my old man. His method is not scientific. He may watch a debate--and zip around the dial during the lulls. He doesn't really vote his pocketbook, at least not in a what...