Word: uptick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...embarked on a major overhaul of both its plants and its products. The results are beginning to show. Late last month the company reported earnings of $859 million for the third quarter, a 5.8% rise from a year ago. That uptick is stronger than it looks: taking into account some bookkeeping changes that inflated last year's profits, the latest earnings amount to a 104% increase...
After some swings, London joins the uptick. A Monday-Tuesday loss of $155 billion in stock values is dented by a hefty $48 billion recovery. The one-day stock-exchange index leaps 142.2 points, to 1943.8, a record increase...
...crucial question is whether the recent uptick in interest rates signals the start of a long-term trend. On this issue economists are divided. Goldman Sachs Economist Robert Giordano declares that the recent run-up will prove short lived. He expects rates to fall below 8% by the end of the year. Kaufman, of Salomon Brothers, is characteristically pessimistic, predicting that long-term rates will rise by nearly a percentage point, to 9.5%, by the end of the year...
...like the false spring temperatures that warmed the nation's capital last week, the uptick in the President's fortunes could be merely transitory. Artful as it was, Reagan's speech did not resolve the most serious question raised by Iranscam: Is the President at 76 sufficiently alert and involved to lead the country? To regain political advantage for the final two years of his Administration, Reagan must still overcome formidable obstacles, particularly the ongoing investigations of the scandal and his passive work habits...
...Tribune, has represented a tough, grungy rural district for a decade. A prolabor liberal, he put together the late, great Democratic coalition: he captured Chicago's blacks, ethnics and liberal whites overwhelmingly, and a majority of the rural quasi-Southerners downstate. He may have been helped by an uptick in the state unemployment rate (to 9.4%) announced last week...