Word: ticker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...things that money can do, and what money can do is impressive. Money can build cities, cure cancers, win wars. The sudden acquisition of the stuff can toss our spirits into the air like a hat. The sudden disappearance of the stuff can freeze us witless before the ticker...
Almost an entire nation become paralyzed with curiosity and concern. Crowds gathered to watch the electronic tickers in brokers' offices or stare at television monitors through plate-glass windows. In downtown Boston, police ordered a Fidelity Investments branch to turn off its ticker because a throng of nervous investors had spilled out onto Congress Street and was blocking traffic. George Finch, 66, a retired businessman in San Francisco, summed up the bewilderment: "I don't know what the hell is going...
...Albert Gore was on the phone to a broker. The long-shot Democratic contender was not selling short in anticipation of the wake on Wall Street. Rather, Gore was searching for political portfolio insurance: reliable information about the direction of the markets. All presidential candidates were similarly affected by ticker shock during a dizzying week in which requests for quotes sent aides scurrying after the Dow Jones industrial average rather than Bartlett...
When New York Giants fans showered their 1986-87 NFC champions with the ticker-tape parade Ed Koch would never hold...
...blizzard of ticker tape fell from the skies, Peru's most famous novelist stepped onto a rickety stage in downtown Lima. Before him, a crowd of 25,000 waved red-and-white Peruvian flags and chanted "Libertad! Libertad!" ("Freedom! Freedom!"). They then began to shout his name: "Mario! Mario! Mario...