Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sunk almost 30 points. "It was remarkable," said Marvin Breen, a trader for Merrill Lynch. "I looked up at the screen, and it was down 20 points. Five minutes later it was down 30. Five minutes later it was down 40. It just kept dropping." Breen's account was only somewhat exaggerated: by 2:30 p.m., the Dow's plunge had passed its earlier one-day record drop of 62, set in July, and had sunk...
...stirs an unusually strong response among readers. Margie Brauer's moving letter to a court-appointed bankruptcy trustee detailing her family's losing battle to hold on to their North Carolina farm (NATION, Sept. 8) has elicited just such an outpouring. In the two weeks since Mrs. Brauer's account of hardworking folk facing bankruptcy appeared, TIME and the Brauers have been deluged with phone calls and letters from strangers offering to help. "People are very concerned," reports TIME Letters Chief Joan Walsh. "I think that the Brauers' decency has obviously touched TIME readers...
...wait! Historically -- one learns just in the nick of time -- balance is what nearly every account of this yearly meeting has begged. It is not all weirdness going down. It is, in the words of Dale Brown, a ventriloquist from Waukesha, Wis., "a family affair aimed at educating young and amateur ventriloquists, promoting the art of ventriloquism, and providing a spotlight for some of the country's best-known professionals." Further, according to Brown and other organizers of the event, the vents (for that is what they call one another) are a little ticked off at being picked...
After the child was born in late March, Whitehead began to have misgivings about handing over the girl she named Sara Elizabeth and the Sterns named Melissa Elizabeth. She refused the agreed-upon payment from the Sterns, so the money was put in an escrow account. A few days later the Sterns agreed to let Whitehead keep the baby for a short time. When the child was not returned after several weeks, the tug-of-war began...
...opposition activists had been interrogated by police. The aim, he said, was "to convince the people that their clandestine activities made no sense. We told them, 'Enough of this game.' " No one was arrested, but the questioning could have a chilling effect. Kiszczak admitted that the amnesty had taken account of the "humanitarian intention" of the Roman Catholic Church after Poland's bishops had appealed for release of political prisoners and constitutional guarantees of basic freedoms. With Solidarity effectively thwarted, and many members of the opposition being grilled about church- centered political activities, Catholic activists had reason to worry about...