Word: uptick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest uptick comes because arms-control talks have broken down and the arms race is intensifying. "It is not only a question of the numbers of nuclear weapons," wrote the Bulletin's editor in chief, Bernard Feld. "More ominous is the inclination of the leaders of the nuclear powers to talk and act as though they were prepared to use these weapons...
...powered much of the semiconductor surge, but big orders are also coming from the manufacturers that use chips in telecommunications products, photocopiers, autos and military equipment like missile-control panels. Says Gary Arnold, National Semiconductor's chief financial officer: "We're seeing the strongest and broadest uptick in the history of the company...
Administration officials last week were publicly and pointedly urging Volcker to rein in the money supply, even if that causes a modest uptick in interest rates. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, who had reservations about Volcker's reappointment, called for "slow-repeat slow-and steady" money growth...
...average, the market is five months ahead of an upturn in the economy," says Barton Biggs, chief portfolio strategist at Morgan Stanley & Co., '"and it did it again." Moreover, the market was not fooled last spring, as many economists were, when the economy made a brief uptick, only to sink back into the doldrums...
...Wall Streeters, the sparring between Pickens and Cities Service, headed by Chairman Charles J. Waidelich, provided a refreshing diversion from a miserable week. With the economy stubbornly refusing to show any convincing signs of improvement, Wall Street's five-week slide managed little more than a modest uptick with the 30 stocks of the Dow Jones industrial average ending the week...