Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before AT&T ever thought of it, Patricia has reached out and touched someone. Gerald, who looks as solid as Wall Street before the '29 crash, is love smitten. With a generous helping of comic relief, including Timothy Wallace playing a musical saw, omnia vincit amor...
...Iranian funds immediately became the centerpiece of a financial thriller that might have been written by Paul Erdman, author of The Crash of 79. On the day after the American action, Bank Markazi, the central bank of Iran, instructed Chase Manhattan, the leading bank in a $500 million loan to the government of the Shah, to draw on Iranian assets at U.S. banks in London for payment of an interest installment of $4 million. Because the assets were frozen and payments could not be made on them, the loan became technically in default. Chase hastily polled the eleven other members...
...mockery of privacy. "Make-belief is all we have," he tells another actor, a woman who plays the part of an infant murderer in a television play. Tyte's personal script usually starts with the story that he was orphaned when his parents were killed in a train crash. In truth, Mom and Pop are in a retirement home that Francis never visits. Having eased his way on sympathy, he plays it by ear and keeps an eye open for opportunities. " 'You'll bring your dragon brooch?' he said, speaking of their honeymoon. 'And your...
...IGNITED the selling spree, Joseph Ensign Granville, appears something of a crackpot. The 57-year-old son of a Yonkers market player who lost it all in the last big crash, Granville ran an investment advice service for those who dealt in postage stamps during the 1950s. He moved up to play with the big boys in the '60s, working for E.F. Hutton until his brash unorthodoxy began to clash with the fundamentalist corporate ethic of the firm...
...safeguards go up, so does the urge to crash the barriers, especially among students. In a celebrated Princeton University case, students snatched grades and housing data from the school's computers and, by their account, briefly shut them down. Last September, two Illinois high school students dialed their way into one of DePaul University's computers and threatened to immobilize it unless they got access to a special program that would have let them communicate with the machine more directly. Said an investigator who helped catch the teenagers: "They did it because everyone said it couldn...