Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Barbara Dolan put it, "While attending stress seminars and workshops, I kept thinking, 'They're talking about me.' " San Francisco Correspondent Dick Thompson was late to an interview when the car in front of him skidded out of control, and his body braced for the expected crash. Happily it did not occur, and the Salk Institute biochemists he was meeting were soon telling him exactly how his neurotransmitters and other internal defenses had geared up for the anticipated trauma...
...stop last week, Foot and other Labor officials hammered away at their only potent issue: the Thatcher record on unemployment. The party's first ten-minute televised campaign message effectively focused on the plight of young jobless workers. The centerpiece of the Labor campaign is a five-year crash program to create 2.5 million new jobs, mainly by diverting some $17 billion now spent on unemployment benefits and tax-revenue losses. Other savings, according to the Labor platform, would come from scrapping the Thatcher government's planned $15 billion Trident missile program...
...days near 58° south latitude, he never saw the sun and at tunes could not even see the top of his mast. "Everything on board was wet and cold," he recalls, "and it was dangerous when I went to sleep. I couldn't know if I would crash with an iceberg." On two occasions his boat was knocked down flat in the water, and the rudder was badly damaged...
Swedish stockbrokers were as gloomy last week as characters in a bleak Ingmar Bergman movie. The Stockholm stock exchange was still and silent, idled temporarily by a total breakdown in an electronic system for registering trades. Millions of transactions being processed at the time of the crash were suddenly in limbo. Said Broker Sven Hagströmer: "It's a scandal. You can't get your money, and you can't get your stocks." Nothing so disastrous had happened to the exchange since it shut down during a financial panic in 1932 after Match King Ivar Kreuger...
...pony escort is not safe alongside, and neither is the pony girl holding Marfa's bridle. The brute might reach over and savage them. When all 20 Derby horses were in the gate, every pair of binoculars was fixed on the 18th post position to see Marfa crash...