Word: ticker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week's outpouring of public warmth and support for the veterans was massive and genuine beyond dispute: a gesture of splendid grandeur. As sheer spectacle, the tribute was a rousing success. It was vintage Big Apple, a ticker-tape parade through the canyons of lower Manhattan. Blizzards of litter (duly calculated to be 468 tons). Bands blaring (God Bless America and The + Caisson Song). Onlookers shouting down from skyscraping heights. Placards and posters flashing and bobbing (YOU'RE OUR HEROES and THANK YOU FOR YOUR SACRIFICES). Throngs (perhaps a million, according to police) cheering, clapping and even weeping...
...debate. Those on both sides of the issue welcomed the step as a tangible demonstration--after years of inaction--that Harvard intends to follow its own rules when investing in companies that do business in South Africa. Not surprisingly, thought agreement ends there. For while opponents of view the ticker move as a drastic route to be pursued only after efforts all persuasion have failed, divestiture supporters itself represents the most constructive able. Harvard can play with respect to Baker's--or any South African activities...
...pathetic irony that Hughes sought refuge in one of the nation's least populous states only to find it too crowded and dangerous (he attempted bribery to stop nuclear testing in Nevada). It is a further mockery by fate that this man who was once given a ticker-tape parade for his aviation exploits grounded himself in a dark cubicle surrounded by crumpled tissues. The conviction that everyone had his price and that he could double it seems to have corrupted Hughes profoundly. His money cut him off from emotional commerce, the give and take of feelings that establishes true...
...only U.S. newsmagazine with a fully staffed bureau operation in New Delhi, TIME was prepared for swift action when a wire-service ticker flashed the news of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination. Bureau Chief Dean Brelis, who had seen Mrs. Gandhi only two weeks earlier, instantly began gearing up for his own extensive reporting duties. He assigned Reporter K.K. Sharma to gather a profile of new Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and asked Bureau Manager Deepak Puri and Researcher Arti Ahluwalia to pull together background material on Mrs. Gandhi. Brelis also obtained, exclusively for TIME, the last known photos...
...newest recruit at the Securities and Exchange Commission is not a Harvard Business School graduate but a computer named EDGAR (for electronic-data gathering, analysis and retrieval). The device promises to become the most useful investment aid since the stock market ticker made its debut in 1867. When fully operational in 1986, EDGAR will allow investors using personal computers and a telephone to get instant access to the 5 million pages of corporate financial information filed annually with the SEC. By interrogating EDGAR, investors will be able to identify companies with poor earnings performance or pinpoint firms whose stock...