Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, in Saturday's game. Harvard failed to force an overtime, when junior Arne Duncan travelled with just three seconds to go. With his squad trailing 59-57 and time running out, Duncan drove to the basket, only to crash to the floor with two Leopards...
...same one which demolished his bike). Just at the moment when you think he will be killed by the raging Ford Mustang, out pops Jimmy from the driver's seat! He obtained it from Nick's brother. The two boys pick up Frankie and a friend, and crash a country club party in the "Valley," with all the predictable play on differing socioeconomic backgrounds. Furthermore, Jimmy's rock music background forges a logical link to another of the movie's strong points its hard-driving, heavy-on-the-bass music...
After taking over from Geneen in 1980, Chairman Rand Araskog tentatively began to shed some of the conglomerate's less profitable divisions; last week he announced that ITT was going on the corporate equivalent of a crash diet. In the coming months, it plans to sell more than a dozen subsidiaries with assets of $1.7 billion. That will be a 12% slash in the company's current assets of $14.1 billion. Officials disclosed only a partial list of the units for sale. They include Eason Oil, the Bobbs-Merrill publishing house and O.M. Scott & Sons, which makes Turf Builder lawn...
...culprits in the stock market crash of 1929 was margin buying, the practice whereby brokers sold stocks for little or no money down. As a result, Congress in 1934 set up regulations that forced investors to put up more cash. The Federal Reserve got the authority to establish the minimum amount, which at times has been 100% but is currently 50%. A $1,000 stock purchase must now be backed by $500 in cash from the buyer...
...last thing Robert Labollita remembers about the night of May 17, 1983, is driving from a restaurant toward his home in Dumont, N.J. The next morning Labollita found himself in a hospital in nearby Englewood. He had fallen asleep at the wheel, flipped his car and, in the resulting crash, knocked out a 4-in. segment of his upper arm bone, the humerus. The lower part of his arm dangled precariously from torn muscle and tendons. Labollita, now 27, recalls, "When I came to, they had already performed emergency surgery to remove the remaining pieces of bone." There...