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Taken aback by the suddenness of the market's revival, some analysts fear that the rally has driven prices above appealing levels, and that a downturn must come. Indeed, it would be astonishing if prices did not slip back soon, at least temporarily, after shooting up so far and so fast. The most prevalent view on Wall Street, however, is that stocks are entering a second stage of a major bull market that, in the opinion of followers of the Dow theory, began unmistakably a year ago. Though the second stage of a bull market usually is characterized...
...maintain reasonable suspense about precisely how the characters will respond to historical events. Solidly professional direction and an expert, huge-172 speaking parts-corps of actors have completed the project. They succeed in humanizing a family to which we have, somehow, attached the word "distinguished" and then let slip from our historical imaginations...
...staff always scurried around after a woman had visited Kennedy, according to Bryant, to retrieve telltale hairpins. He also relates a conversation when Jackie allegedly found a woman's undergarment tucked into a pillow slip. She is supposed to have said calmly to Jack...
...more competent-better able to get ahead and, very important, able to "cut the mustard," meaning deal with the difficulties and obstacles that present themselves to people in a highly advanced and still quite competitive society. In the background lurks fear: Will my child lose, will he or she slip back, will the result be failure, real or imaginary? No admission to schools like A or B, no acceptance at colleges like X or Y and, long before that, a lack of success at the hurdles of tennis and baseball, camp activities or a first dance? For many children...
...audience, who are mostly disc-hungry teen-agers with money to burn. Orgasmic rock, which flourishes on singles, does not outsell everything else; the top records are soft, romantic rock albums. But when a company wants to launch an unknown or bolster a flagging group, the trick is to slip into an album a throbbing rhythm-and-blues number that can be made into a single for repeated Top 40 AM airings...