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...which it has held since February. The stalemate has given the year on Wall Street a very strange pattern: a cyclonic rise in January and February, during which the Dow rose more than 120 points on record trading, followed by six months of generally lackluster volume and back-and-forth price movements that rarely last more than a week or two and cancel each other out. The current drop could end the seesawing, but the betting on Wall Street is against it. What analysts are beginning to call the "Ford-Carter market" will provide investors with rich new opportunities...
Although stock prices remain stuck a bit below 1,000 on the Dow Jones industrial average, most Wall Streeters still think it is only a matter of time before the barrier crumbles and the U.S. economy continues its comeback. In back-and-forth trading last week the Dow average closed at 972.92, about even with the previous week's close. Simultaneously, however, the nation got some of the best news yet about prices and jobs. The wholesale price index in February dropped .5%; it was the fourth straight month in which that key indicator has either held steady...
Indeed, Princeton outhustled Harvard for the first half hour of play, taking charge of the fast-paced, back-and-forth action. Coach George Ford admitted after the game that "we were asleep the first 30 minutes...
...movies also recorded violent back-and-forth movements of Kennedy's head and body, leading some people to believe that he was struck by bullets from two directions: from the rear by Oswald and from the front by someone else. But medical witnesses told the Rockefeller panel that the movements were caused by a neuromuscular reaction to the bullet entering from behind and that there was no medical evidence that Kennedy was shot from any other direction. In fact, one witness said, the motions of Kennedy's body could not possibly have been caused by a frontal bullet...
...match seesawed back-and-forth in the final round with neither team holding more than a one point advantage. With the score tied at thirteen, foilsman Nick Tepe just ran out of time in his effort to gain the victory for Harvard, as the clock...