Word: throughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After dumping Meiselman and Mertz, Roberts and Kalish breezed through their last two rounds to take the consolation title, knocking out UConn, 6-0, 6-1, and Providence, 6-2, 6-4.
On the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, where prices had generally been climbing through the year, brokers were swept up in a selling wave that caused pandemonium on Wall Street and twinges of fear throughout the country. In just five days, the market dive left investors with some...
> A policy decision that henceforth the Federal Reserve will no longer concern itself with trying to manipulate interest rates, its traditional device for controlling the growth of money, and will just stop creating so many dollars instead. The Fed regulates the level of money in the economy by buying or...
Bonds took an especially bad beating, since they usually pay fixed rates of return to investors and have values that fluctuate in accordance with overall interest rates in the economy. When interest rates rise, bond prices go down, and last week they fell through the floor. IBM had an offering...
There was a message in the weeklong madness in the markets. Says Democratic Economist Walter Heller: "I think Wall Street was saying, Sure, we think you ought to fight inflation, you ought to strengthen the dollar, you ought to tighten money, but holy smokes, not necessarily to the extent of...