Word: walls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...predate the past turn of the century, to 1882, when three striving journalists--Charles Dow, 31, Edward Jones, 27, and Charles Bergstresser, 24--started Dow Jones & Co. to pick up news and gossip and then peddle them to brokers, bankers and slippery speculators. In 1889 Dow Jones launched the Wall Street Journal, a four-page stock-and-bond paper. Price: 2[cents]. As Edward Scharff writes in his book about the company, Worldly Power, "The Dow Jones messenger boys and reporters hustled advertising and subscriptions while they made their rounds... Much of the financial advertising in the Journal was placed...
...corporate future when engineers consolidate their power, cubicles will still exist, because they're very space efficient. Engineers appreciate efficiency. But unlike the sterile boxes of today, every cubicle will be a technology wonderland customized for the occupant. Flat-panel screens on each wall will give the impression you are in a hot-air balloon floating over the Alps. Noise-cancellation technology will block out the surrounding sounds while providing a symphony within the cubisphere. The computer will continue its evolution to a full entertainment center, providing a constant supply of first-run movies, live nudity, gambling and video conferencing...
1970s The price is paid for excessive government spending in the '60s. Inflation hits double-digit figures. Interest rates take off, sending Wall Street into an ugly bear market...
1980s A crackdown on inflation brings the most painful recession (1981-82) since the Great Depression. Wall Street then goes wild until the Crash...
...course, there was never much in it for the states anyway, other than good press; in contrast to the tobacco suit, nobody was dangling umpteen gazillion simoleons in settlement money. Still, the defection does allow Redmond a little positive spin. Naturally, it was greeted as good news on Wall Street, where MSFT jumped more than 5 points in late-day trading...