Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baseball's past was grander, it is only because we don't remember it. Babe Ruth was traded. The Black Sox scandal was not fiction. And the Red Sox and Cubs have come closer to championships than a lot of other teams...
Indeed, it started to shape up as a repeat of Black Monday, with sharp declines in foreign stock markets and the Dow Jones average falling about 63 points in the first half-hour on Monday...
...Today's development was as many people, including myself, expected," said Lee Professor of Economics Hendrik S. Houthakker, who called Friday's 190-point drop a "freak." Houthakker also said that the Black Monday crash of 1987 was "relatively insignificant" to the economy...
...YORK--Wall Street averted another Black Monday and had a Blue Chip day instead,as some of the heaviest trading in history produced a rally in big-name stocks and losses in many smaller issues...
...surprising were the Democrats who lined up to criticize the Administration's caution: in the past, many of them had espoused anti-interventionist sentiments in Nicaragua and toward the Navy escorts of Kuwaiti oil tankers during the Iran-Iraq war. Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts called the episode "a black mark on our diplomacy and our values." Congressman Les Aspin of Wisconsin declared, "We should go in and capture Noriega." Aspin differentiated between military intervention and "a snatch. All I want is Noriega." In the face of such belligerence, Republican Senator Robert Dole cracked, "Suddenly the place is filled with...