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...door the minute they see the value of their portfolio fall. They sold last week. The rest will hang on, knowing a dip is just a dip, a sigh is just a sigh -- but they will grow increasingly uncomfortable as the dip begins to look like a trough. At that point, they will become a little angry with themselves for ever having got into this mess. Perhaps they will feel a little guilty for having tried to get "something for nothing," and perhaps they will conclude that this stock market stuff is just more stress than it's worth...
...literary studies, text-centered New Criticism had reached a dead end by the late Fifties and needed to be widened and deepened, trough the study of history and sexuality, respectively. Major North American writes who helped Sixties students rechart the mental landscape in inter disciplinary terms were Allen Ginsberg, Norman O. Brown, Marshall McLunan and Leslie Fiedler...
...merriment plays off an apprehension of Midler's public, if not of the star herself, that she is in a slight career trough. A decade ago, she suffered an acrimonious flop film (Jinxed) and a nervous breakdown. She rebounded into a saner life, with a doting husband and an adored daughter, and the movie stardom that had previously eluded her. But her past three films ! have fallen this side of blockbuster. Scenes from a Mall swallowed her and Woody Allen whole; Hocus Pocus was a moderately popular summer farce; she turned down the original Sister Act script to make...
...about money." Putting up very little cash, Foley allowed De Roetth to buy and quickly sell shares in companies that rose dramatically in value soon after they were issued. Says Jay Ritter, a professor of finance at the University of Illinois: "Speculators like Foley are just feeding at the trough, throwing sand in the economic gears between suppliers and users of capital." Foley's spokesman strongly disagreed: "There is no law saying an American citizen can't make money in the stock market, even if he is Speaker of the House of Representatives...
...entrepreneurs: William Levitt, the former Seabee who applied rapid building techniques to construct Levittowns; Eugene Ferkauf, whose E.J. Korvettes chain earned him the title "the Discount King"; Kemmons Wilson, founder of Holiday Inns; and Ray Kroc, who turned the McDonald brothers' Santa Anita hamburger ) stand into a national feeding trough...