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Hackeling nailed the ice-breaker with 30 seconds remaining in the first overtime period when sophomore Christin Biggs chipped a crossing pass from the right side over Yale goalkeeper Allison Murphy...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Booters Bash Yale in OT, 2-0 | 10/26/1988 | See Source »

...half an hour price floor that will go into effect on the Standard & Poor's 500 index whenever it drops on the Merc by the equivalent of about 96 points on the Dow Jones average. Under even more stormy conditions, if the Dow drops 250 points, a "circuit breaker" would halt trading for one hour on both the Big Board and in the Merc's S&P futures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: Breaking the Next Fall | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

...Chicago's latitude. Last week, however, a White House working group on the crash delivered a quite different report, one that essentially exonerated the futures markets. The group, which included Treasury Secretary James Baker and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, recommended only one significant safeguard: a so-called circuit breaker that would interrupt trading in most U.S. financial markets for one hour if the Dow fell 250 points from the | previous day's close and for two hours if it dropped 400 points. In congressional testimony later in the week, Greenspan defended stock-index arbitrage and computer trading as forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War of Two Cities | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...point during the tiebreaker, Austrian and Fleming had a five-minute rally until Fleming charged the net. The ball barely skimmed the net and fell onto Austrian's side to win the tie-breaker for Fleming...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Trinity Eliminates Netwomen ,5-1, in NCAA Tournament | 5/13/1988 | See Source »

Berry and Weinman fought to a 6-6 tie before Weinman took the first set in a tie breaker. Weinman went on to win the second...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Brown Buries Netmen; Bruins Surprise, 8-1 | 4/23/1988 | See Source »

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