Word: walls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people who were going to die for the revolution went on to law school. I tend not to meet the people who were active and then went on to Wall Street, [but] I know they're out there and I know a lot of them voted for Reagan," he says...
...October 19, the stock market dropped more than 500 points, the largest one-day drop in Wall Street's history. The chief actors in that demise were small computers, automatically selling and buying, buying and selling, huge blocks of shares. Without any human making any particular decision, machines followed a logic of their...
...fact is that the crash of the stock market did not change people's desire to be rich or their belief that money brings happiness. What the expanded indulgence in luxury goods indicates is that the financial shock only reduced confidence in the paper money of Wall Street and increased society's faith in tangible items, especially as an indication of social status. The value of a Rolls Royce doesn't fluctuate when stock values flash on a computer screen--and you can always drive...
...directors, dancers, painters and intrigued onlookers participated in the variety of peripatetic performances. In one room, you could watch a pianist, a trumpeter, a dancer and a muralist all creating and improvising at once--and you could even pick up a paintbrush and join in yourself, on the adjacent wall. Even the ideas that didn't work worked--being in the spirit of creation and daring to try something new was all that mattered...
...rather modest goal of meeting outrageous mortgage payments for a penthouse. Likewise his success on the job ultimately is governed by nothing more than the fabled characteristics of Willy Loman. (He gets his shoeshine, while he smiles--and continues to trade bonds, thanks to the technology that Wall Street firms have devised to polish shoes while brokers make frantic trades on the phone...