Word: walls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wall Street gave the report a mixed reception as economists debated whether the figures foreshadowed merely sluggish growth or a genuine recession. Bullish investors initially set off a rally Friday on the assumption that inflation might no longer be a danger and the Federal Reserve Board would soon allow interest rates to fall. But fear of a slump took hold later in the day, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average to 2381.96 at the closing bell, down 2.94 points for the day and 36.84 for the week...
Another concern is that agencies may be getting too big to manage. Fast- growing and profitable Saatchi & Saatchi stunned Wall Street two months ago with the news that for 1989 its earnings will decline for the first time in 19 years. Sorrell insists that he will encounter no such obstacles. But first he will have to win the fight for Ogilvy, which is likely to seek higher bidders. Among Sorrell's possible rivals for Ogilvy: Japan's Dentsu and the U.S. firms Interpublic and Young & Rubicam. Sorrell may not be the only ad mogul who still thinks that bigger...
Throughout Egypt, the story is much the same. The walls of the Temple of Luxor, some 400 miles upriver from Cairo, are cracking so badly that President Hosni Mubarak, visiting the site in February, called for a thorough restoration. Nearly a fifth of the wall paintings at the tomb of Nefertari, across the Nile from Luxor in the Valley of the Queens, have been destroyed by salt deposits. In fact, says Zahi Hawass, who supervises the Giza Plateau for the Egyptian Antiquities Organization, "all the monuments are endangered. If we don't do something soon, in 100 years the paintings...
...Suzuki Samurai. "Stan's not always right," he tells his audience. "I'm not saying, 'Follow me across the river, this is Moses.' " He just wants them to think with him. What he thinks about are the elaborate, hand-drawn charts that fill his filing cabinets and cover every wall of his office. Weinstein runs his hands over these charts like a sorcerer, working most nights till dawn. As a technical analyst, he does not care about good companies or bad. When a reader advocates Apple Computer, he replies, "You're right, it's a great company. You're right...
...lying if I said I didn't love it," he says. "One time we were flying in from Europe, and we had 40 minutes to get through Customs at Kennedy and make our next flight. The Customs man said, 'Are you Stan Weinstein? I saw you on Wall Street Week. Do you still like Mobilhome?' I said I still liked Mobilhome, so he raps on the suitcases, done-done-done, and he yells out, 'Hey, the guy's gotta make a flight...