Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That dam may have started to crack. While the U.S. banking industry pocketed record earnings last year, Morgan's fell 7%, to $1.46 billion. Derivatives are partly to blame. Morgan last year declared it had $659 million in nonperforming assets, 90% of which were defaults from Asian derivative counterparties. Among the defaulters were three South Korean companies, led by SK Securities, which early this year refused to pay $490 million that Morgan claims it is owed...
...second consecutive seasons, the Harvard Crimson will quit Cambridge a few days earlier than the rest of us, trekking to the deep South for a crack at glory and an opportunity to debunk the myth that good baseball doesn't exist in the Northeast--and it has to like its chances...
...satellite has gone a-wanderin'. After the failure of onboard control systems left technicians powerless to stop the key communications satellite from drifting out of position yesterday evening, the binary fabric of our electronic society began to unravel. To the relief of everyone from doctors on call to crack dealers, some pager service was restored early this morning by using other satellites. The rest of us wait, meanwhile, as PanAmSat technicians try to coax the wayward Galaxy 4 back into position...
...Crack all the jokes you want, and the man smoking a Monte Cristo in the clubhouse yesterday afternoon won't care. For one day at least, this Everyman was perfect...
...late Tuesday that his state would not participate in the upcoming anti-Microsoft free-for-all -- at least not for another few weeks. Morales cited concerned letters from Texas-based computer manufacturers Compaq and Dell -- a sign that Redmond?s write-in campaign may just have opened up a crack in the antitrust facade. Whether that crack will be large enough to ship Windows 98 through is another question...