Word: blows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Game one was a big blow to the Crimson. After capturing sole possession of first place last weekend, Harvard may have been too up for yesterday's games...
...doldrums. Merrill Lynch, the largest U.S. brokerage, reported last week that its first-quarter profits tumbled to $37.2 million, down 46% from a year ago. Paine Webber Group said its earnings dropped 56%, while Dean Witter's income was off nearly 40%. Shearson Lehman Hutton suffered a particularly harsh blow. After writing down its holdings in MCorp, a troubled Texas banking firm, Shearson reported a $15 million loss for the quarter. Overall, the before-tax income of U.S. securities firms slumped to $450 million, down 60% from the first quarter...
Psychological Blow...
...Niekerk said before the Botha government imposed a ban on press coverage, American press coverage of the violence there dealt a psychological blow to South Africans who support apartheid...
...mere 17%, staged counterprotests, which quickly spread to Tbilisi and mushroomed into calls for more autonomy from Moscow and even secession. As funeral processions snaked through Tbilisi's streets last week, Gorbachev said he was "deeply grieved" by the tragedy but warned that "we will not allow a blow to be dealt to the brotherhood of the U.S.S.R. or to the cause of reform...