Word: blitzed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trends hardly explained Wall Street's loony rise and fall. The main cause of the fierce roller-coaster ride was the volume of buy and sell orders triggered by computer-driven trading programs at major investment houses. When market prices reach prescribed levels, the so-called program traders can blitz the market in seconds with orders representing many thousands of shares of a broad spectrum of stocks. On Friday morning those orders seemed merely to be building on the previous day's historic 51-point climb. The driving force behind that record-breaking market rush, says Richard McCabe, a vice...
Italy was also hit by the brutal winter blitz. In Venice pigeons pecked vainly for bread crumbs on the white-mantled Piazza San Marco, and blankets of snow decked the prows of unused gondolas. The southern regions were battered by gale-force winds that transformed the Naples waterfront into a tangle of wrecked boats and knocked out power lines in Sardinia. Throughout Italy weather conditions caused at least six deaths and several billion dollars' worth of property damage...
...trend is to name teams for malevolent forces, such as the Blast, Sting, Blizzard and Blitz. Three team names celebrate disasters that destroyed much of their native locale: the Golden Bay Earthquakes, Chicago Fire and Atlanta (now Calgary) Flames. Such a breakthrough in reverse civic pride may yet induce other cities to celebrate their local disasters. Just think. The Boston Stranglers, the New York Muggers, the Washington Scams, the Los Angeles Smog...
...Australian film as a full-scale commercial effort in 871 theaters, rather than as an art-house sideline. Paramount also shrewdly capitalized on the sunny charm of Hogan, sending him on a twelve-city tour to generate human interest in the film amid a television and print advertising blitz. The studio's $5 million p.r. investment has been returned manyfold. Says Paramount's Tanen: "We worked this poor man unmercifully. But Americans took a liking...
Unfortunately, Reagan's masterful public relations blitz after the summit managed to convince Americans by a 3-1 margin that SDI is essential to U.S. interests. But what would people say if they knew of its offensive potential...