Word: crash
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...depression the batwomen were experiencing yesterday, it rivaled only the crash of '29. Going into the top of the seventh inning, only four of the Crimson's last 19 batters had reached base. And the squad's final three at bats proved no different. What little resolve the batwomen possessed withered as Stonehill pitcher Catherine Stovall retired the side to end the game and hand the Crimson its first shutout of the season...
Arnold Bernhard, 81, spotted his chance after the stock market crash of 1929. Figuring that the public was aching for reliable investment advice, he set up a firm to provide it. The result was the weekly Value Line Investment Survey, first published in 1935. Today 111,400 subscribers get Wall Street's most popular major advisory service (cost: $365 a year). "All you need is an idea and faith in yourself," says Bernhard, who had dabbled in journalism and playwriting before turning to Wall Street. In a much awaited public offering, Bernhard will sell 19% of his company...
Arafat had appeared to understand the urgency of the situation as well as Hussein did. Israel is engaged in a crash program of building Jewish settlements in the West Bank, whose population at the moment is 96% Arab. By 1987, if not sooner, however, the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin expects to increase the Jewish population of the territory from 35,000 to 100,000, making the Israeli colonization essentially irreversible...
...Special Envoy Philip Habib is to break the deadlock in the negotiations for Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon, he must convince the Israelis that their demand to keep a residual military presence in the country is unnecessary. With that aim in mind, Washington has undertaken a $251 million crash program to rebuild the regular Lebanese army, which is in a state of serious disrepair after eight years of civil war and sectarian strife. Last week 32 U.S.-made M48 tanks were hoisted off a ship in Beirut for delivery to the Lebanese army. Twenty-eight Green Berets from...
Maneka has named her new party Rashtriya Sanjay Manch (National Sanjay Platform) in honor of her husband, who died in a 1980 plane crash. Over the past six months, Maneka claims, her movement has attracted 800,000 members, some of them disillusioned supporters of Indira's Congress (I) Party. Its charter: to work toward a democratic socialist state based on the ideals set forth by Mahatma Gandhi, who led the fight for India's independence (and to whom the currently feuding family is not related). Says an Indian newspaper editor: "One wonders which Gandhi she's talking...