Word: bloodbath
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...morning, the free-fall was leveling off. Selling Intel - down 13 points at 10:30 - in the middle of a bloodbath may be good business for the pros, but American investors are well schooled in the buy-and-hold. And they know that a brief run of bad sessions in September - or the one-time underperformance of a stock up 49 percent for the year when the news hit - do not an incumbent-ousting recession make. A few sprightly earnings numbers from the tech sector in October, and the current gloom could be a distant memory...
...interviewed Joe Ciollo '99 when he described a track victory over B.C. as a "bloodbath," claiming that "it was the most points I ever saw one team score." He also predicted that the B.C. athletes would all be "in therapy Monday morning." The next morning, the B.C. track coach called and threatened to cancel the annual dual meet...
DIED. GREG BARNES, 17, Columbine High School basketball star who lived through last year's bloodbath; by a suicide hanging; in Littleton, Colo. Friends said he'd shown no signs of trouble...
...Corleone children, decides to involve himself in the “family business” and prepares for a dangerous meeting, a step that invokes both pride and caution in his older brothers. Several of the Corleones have pressured Michael to join their mafioso life. Anticipating a bloodbath, Michael is ambivalent about his choice...
...those factors aside, Rwanda today can be understood only through the harsh prism of the genocide that ravaged it in 1994. That bloodbath, fueled by an incendiary combination of misguided Belgian colonial policy, divisive domestic politics, ethnic stereotyping and tragic French foreign policy, took the lives of 800,000 of the minority Tutsi. The genocide, and the concurrent civil war during which the Tutsi minority took control of the country, devastated the infrastructure and exterminated the professional class. There were fewer than a dozen doctors within Rwanda's borders in 1997, and no more than 100 nurses. Hospitals were destroyed...