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Word: ticker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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What with the increasing frequency of hydraulic-system failures and fares that change with the speed of the stock-market ticker, today's air traveler has lots to worry about. Now there's something else to check when settling into an airplane seat: Is your deodorant working properly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Offensive Behavior | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

Understandably so. It was the first concerto he ever learned, at age 12, under the watchful eye of his mother. It won him first place in a statewide Texas competition. He played it again to win the Leventritt Award in 1954 and again in Moscow. After his ticker-tape parade up Broadway, his debut recording became the first classical disk ever to reach sales of $1 million, and it featured, of course, the dear old Tchaikovsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Return of Van Cliburn | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

...Metropolis, Ill., they are refurbishing for summer visitors the large statue that proclaims the dubious proposition that this is "Superman's hometown." And in Cleveland, which really is Superman's hometown, a booster club that calls itself the Neverending Battle is planning an international Superman exhibition and a ticker-tape parade down Euclid Avenue in June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Up, Up and Awaaay!!! | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...wonder that at 8:30 a.m. Washington time last Friday, virtually every money manager and trader was intently watching a TV, a computer terminal or a wire-service ticker. When the fateful figure at last flashed across the screens, it was another shocker -- but this time a good one. The Government announced that the November deficit was $13.2 billion, a stunning 25% decline from October's record $17.6 billion shortfall and the best monthly trade showing since the $13 billion gap in April. Exports surged 9% from October, to $23.8 billion, as imports fell 6%, to $37 billion. Inflation numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breathing A Bit Easier | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...Yikes," I say. "If I've only got seven days left on the old ticker I'd better get hopping on the good times...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Death of a Sleazeball | 11/21/1987 | See Source »

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