Word: top
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parent company of United Airlines, the second largest U.S. carrier. UAL's board said it would consider the offer, and sent emissaries to meet with Davis' advisers. Meanwhile, UAL shares rocketed from 164 1/2 to 257 in just four days. Wall Streeters believe that the price could top $300 if other buyers...
...Incredible, isn't it? A woman went to visit her cousin in Cincinnati and she said, "Look, you're hanging the toilet paper wrong." Louise replied, "What do you mean?" The cousin said, "You're hanging it so it goes over the top. You're supposed to hang it so that the toilet paper goes down along the wall." I figured this is a subject everybody can relate to, and it was -- well -- different. And I wondered, "How many people really care?" Then I thought, "I care, and I bet thousands of others do too." So I printed...
...domestic strategist for the investment firm Morgan Stanley, who since May has been predicting a new all-time high on the Dow. Elaine Garzarelli, a portfolio manager at Shearson Lehman Hutton, who was one of the few forecasters to warn of the crash in 1987, believes the Dow will top 3000 before the end of the year...
...top of just about every college president's "to do" list these days is a resolve to recruit more minorities. Although a growing percentage of black students are finishing high school, black attendance in college is dropping. In 1985 only 26% of black high school graduates went on to college, down from 34% in 1976, a year when the figure was slightly above that of whites. While minority college enrollment expanded slightly between 1980 and 1986, the gain was mostly because of increased numbers of Asians and Hispanics, not blacks...
Many programs court only the academically gifted, but there are exceptions. Last month Connecticut College launched a program aimed at tenth-graders who rank in the top 30% of their class but fall short of the top...