Word: walls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prices of imported goods, which in turn worsens inflation. But like many governmental economic steps, this is also a psychological action designed to show the world that Carter is finally ready to move determinedly against U.S. inflation, which recently hit an annual rate of 10%. Said Carter to a Wall Street crowd, as he stood later in the week beneath a bronze statue of George Washington outside Federal Hall: "I mean business. I do not intend to fail and I will not fail...
...Wall Street, rising interest rates are usually viewed as the worst of all poisons for the stock market. Yet traders were initially so excited by the promise of a steadier dollar that they optimistically bid up share prices with record speed; the Dow Jones industrial average jumped 35 points Wednesday, its largest one-day rise in history. On the commodity markets, prices for future delivery of cattle, soybeans and cotton briefly fell, partly in the expectation that inflation really would slow down. Oddest of all, bond prices rose sharply, and long-term interest rates actually fell. Apparent reason: a dollar...
Just a decade ago, he seemed to many admirers an almost legendary figure. Enthroned in an oversized wicker chair, sporting a rak ish beret and clutching a rifle in one hand and a spear in the other, he looked defiantly out at the world from a thousand wall posters of radical chic. FREE HUEY the bumper stickers cried, and everybody knew that meant Huey Newton, co-founder of the Black Panthers, imprisoned for the death of a policeman in a Shootout in Oakland, Calif...
...Republican groupies stepped soft-shoe through the crimson glamor of the Harvard Club, looking at oak wall fixtures and wondering at the absurdity...
...glad to see the paper back because a lot of Times readers will buy nothing else," James Finn, supervisor of the stand said yesterday. While he declined to release any circulation figures, Finn said the sale of the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal did not match the daily sale of Times before the strike, which began August...