Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...imposes his own lost dreams on William. It is no wonder that Bo Agee and Curtis Gates invest so much interest in their younger kin: they don't see much of a future for themselves. Bo Agee gets laid off work at various factories, eventually leaves home, develops a crack addiction, and then tries to come clean...
Other new firms are helping to repair crack-ups in the financial industry. Tim Scala and Ken Jingozian left banking jobs last year to become self-styled derivatives investigators -- experts who advise clients on how to cope with the risks of those securities. Their timing was uncanny: soon after Scala and Jingozian created their New York City-based firm, Treasury Resources Consulting and Investigations, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates and sent the value of many derivatives plunging. Their phone has hardly stopped ringing. Says Jingozian: "The entire derivatives market has taken a quantum leap in complexity and sophistication...
...jetliners were involved in fatal crashes this year -- criticized a report published Sunday by The New York Times, which claimed the airline has allowed jets to leave gates without enough fuel at least nine times and once used a jet for 13 days despite a dangerous crack on its wing flap. USAir said it had followed federal guidelines in all these cases except an emergency landing at La Guardia, in which it said personnel deviated from established refueling procedures. (USAir says it suspended the pilot and first officer without pay for two months and forced them to repeat their training...
...Cali cartel, has achieved a virtual monopoly on the world cocaine trade. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration estimates that along with smaller groups, Rodriguez exports 700 tons of the drug annually. Thus he is a major contributor to America's drug plague and its attendant tragedies: the crack babies, the drive-by deaths, the myriad other lives left in ruins. Now, as he offered Quinn sirloin tips, fried shrimp and flan, he explained how he wanted to give all that...
...just took a crack at a whole profession, which would just happen to be the one I am engaged in here at The Crimson...