"Bear market" in NY Times

[Sam Clements]

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Subject: "Bear market" in NY Times


>    From Sunday's "City" section of the NEW YORK TIMES:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/22/nyregion/22fyi.html
> Q. With all the talk about bears encroaching on the New Jersey and
northern suburbs, when was the last time a bear roamed in Manhattan?
<snip>
    OED has 1709 and 1714 citations for "bear."  Both are from England.  The
New York Stock Exchange did not exist at this time.  Saying that this "bear"
is an "apocryphal-sounding account" doesn't help matters.  It's wrong.
    I give up on the NEW YORK TIMES.

Barry,

I'll give 'em what fer.

Sam