Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conservative columnist Joseph Alsop were there, as were General William Westmoreland and Daniel Ellsberg, who was about to stand trial for leaking the Pentagon papers. They had come to mourn John Paul Vann, one of the nation's proconsuls in Viet Nam, who had died in a helicopter crash. "In this war without heroes," writes Neil Sheehan at the beginning of his engrossing and provocative new book, "this man had been the one compelling figure...
...many people, the Crash of '87 turned out to be a heart-stopping carnival ride that dropped them off just about where they had been before the stock- price run-up that preceded the collapse. But others found their worlds turned upside down. Last year's bulls are this year's goats, and bad-news bears are best-selling authors. A gallery, starting with...
WHEN ZWEIG TALKS, PEOPLE LISTEN. Analysts who foretold the crash have achieved guru status. Chief among them may be Marty Zweig, 46, who publishes the Zweig Forecast newsletter and manages $1.3 billion in pension funds from his Manhattan headquarters. Zweig turned bearish in September 1987 and predicted that the Dow Jones average would soon plunge 1,000 points, to 1755 (the actual bottom: 1738). In the year since his prediction came true, with most newsletters sagging, his subscriber list has grown 90%, to 15,275 (at $245 a year...
...track-and-field meet that had already stunned the world with a drug scandal, a bumper crop of new records and some surprising upsets, the scene seemed to be set for Bubka to crash through the barrier. First he assured himself of a gold medal and an Olympic record with a jump of 5.9 meters, which translates into 19 ft. 4 1/4 in. Bubka then had the bar set at 20 ft. 1/4 in., took a look, and put away the dream for another year. "It has been a very long season," he explained. "I am very tired...
...Politburo may now hope to squeeze some of that money out of the U.S. by alternately cooperating and dragging its feet on the MIA issue. Viet Nam seemed to be following that cynical strategy last July when it abruptly halted plans for a joint excavation of crash sites. The move may have been provoked by Washington's refusal to agree to low-level diplomatic ties until Viet Nam completes the withdrawal of an estimated 100,000 troops from Kampuchea...