Word: walls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Porsche dealers know that Wall Streeters like to show off what they have. But among the pinstripe set, posing for Playboy is going too far. Seven of the nine stock-market workers featured in the August cover story, "Women of Wall Street," have left their jobs since their photo sessions last year. Lisandra Trujillo, a broker for South Richmond Securities, returned to school. But Robin Mormelo, an administrative assistant for the Stuart-James brokerage house, says she was denied raises and felt compelled to quit. Says Mormelo: "Maybe I'm naive, but what difference does it make what...
...that for the moment it has been eclipsed by a need to keep the economy afloat. As a result, interest rates on three-month Treasury bills have fallen from a high of 9.4% in late March to 7.9% last week. The clarity of the Fed's purpose has sent Wall Street on a bullish stampede to post-October 1987-crash highs. Last week the Dow Jones average climbed 53 points, closing...
THERE is Buggin' Out, a radically militant Black activist who directs his energy not towards constructive change, but at a pointless effort to get pictures of Blacks hung on the all-Italian Wall of Fame in a local pizzeria...
...Democratic leader said he and others in his party would "go to the wall" to block a constitutional amendment against flag desecration, which the Republicans and President Bush say is necessary...
...That is something we will go to the wall for in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening," he said...