Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That situation sets the market up for a fall, when investors suddenly realize the party is over. Already, the Dow Jones industrial average has started to show signs of second thoughts. Between late August and mid- September the index fell almost 200 points, prompting investors to wonder whether the reckoning was finally at hand. But last week came relief. The Dow took a 75.23-point jump on Tuesday, the largest one-day advance in history, before easing back to 2570.17, up 45.53 for the week...
...time Big Ron's Bar and AJ's Tavern were in game seven of the playoffs, my list was long enough to qualify for a Gov. department thesis and I was beginning to wonder what I was doing in this business anyway...
...anything slowed down Herbert Hoover's Quercus alba, standing a proud 60 ft. In fact, the Hoover white oak has grown rotund, reminding visitors of the fellow who planted it 56 years ago. It makes you wonder if there is some mystic force in Irvin Williams' 18 acres where Nature imitates human nature. Williams has seen just about everything else in his 26 years of coaxing trees, flowers, grass, birds and squirrels to coexist on top of and among security alarms, underground cables and rooms. The battle is constant, but he loves it. There is Grover Cleveland's Acer palmatum...
...haven't gotten to the really boring part yet," Jane adds. After several weeks of analyzing, she was promoted to sharpening pencils--3500 Number Twos, to be exact. (Did you ever wonder who sharpened all those pencils for your standardized tests? Now you know.) Jane says the pencils were the most boring part of the summer, at least until she realized "you can sharpen pencils and read Lady Chatterley's Lover at the same time...After that I listened to the Grateful Dead because my boss went on vacation...
...product of developers' eagerness to cash in on the local economic boom. More than ever, the Square is a hot property. Not only is it in a prosperous intellectual and technological center, but it also draws legions of tourists and well-heeled students each year. No wonder property values have reached the stratosphere...