Word: walle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Consumer Price Index continues to steamroll along at 12.7%, but the prime rate, which banks charge their preferred customers, has come down a quarter of a point from its height of 15¾%. There is a feeling on Wall Street that rates have peaked. This has energized the Dow Jones stock market average, which rose eleven points last week, to close at 822, its best performance since the Volcker rally turned into the Volcker rout after...
Your Money Matters by Donald Moffitt. Even some six-digit corporate executives have no idea how they will bankroll their retirement, so Moffitt has collected his Wall Street Journal columns on personal finance into a $4.95 paperback for them as well as more modest money earners. Moffitt writes with cheekiness; the section on how to buy directors' liability insurance begins: "So you were dozing in your Eames chair when the other directors approved that 'commission' to His Austere Majesty the Grand Serene Slob of Lower Slobbovia?" Six pages on cutting home heating costs are invaluable, if only...
...midget console. Blockbuster is a test of reflexes and anticipation; twiddling the machine's knob moves an electronic paddle back and forth across the bottom of the 1½-in.-square display screen, and the object is to bounce an electronic bullet so that it destroys a wall, block by block. Milton Bradley Co.'s Microvision with Blockbuster, easily the best new electronic game this season, costs about $50. Substituting faceplates, ranging from $16.50 to $18, changes the programming to such games as Pinball, also an agility test, or Connect Four, a good spatial relations puzzle...
...half. Through an incision in the abdomen or the scrotum, two expandable balloon-like cylinders are slipped into the corpora cavernosa. The cylinders are connected by tubing to a small spherical reservoir filled with fluid (which is placed near the bladder under the muscles of the abdominal wall) and to a pump (inserted into the scrotum). To achieve erection, a man squeezes the pump several times, forcing fluid into the cylinders and distending the penis. The process is reversed by pressing a release valve on the pump...
...people had hoped for. Zenith, however, said that his decision to leave had been entirely his own." To make plain where the reporter's suspicions really lie, the Times caps the argument with this curious sentence: " 'Mr. Nevin's record is not unblemished,' commented one Wall Street analyst...