Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people to commit so much time of their collegiate lives throughout the academic year. Some of the special activities for the oarsmen during the off-season training period include the Tail of the Charles--the freshman equivalent of the Head of the Charles--in the fall, and the Crash-B Indoor Rowing Championships in the winter on MIT's simulation ergometers...
...major disruption for the band was losing Brennan. "A glamorous way to lose a band member is a plane crash, a drug overdose, or maybe asphyxiation, but we lost ours to academics," says Tarver, smiling. Brennan won the prestigious Rome Prize in classics for a year of study in Rome...
...October crash brought a lot of people our way," one classic car company owner in Arizona told the Times. "Our sales jumped by more than $14 million in 1988. We've never had that kind of jump before," added the owner, whose cars sell for more than $150,000 each...
...fact is that the crash of the stock market did not change people's desire to be rich or their belief that money brings happiness. What the expanded indulgence in luxury goods indicates is that the financial shock only reduced confidence in the paper money of Wall Street and increased society's faith in tangible items, especially as an indication of social status. The value of a Rolls Royce doesn't fluctuate when stock values flash on a computer screen--and you can always drive...
Wolfe speaks to a graduating class whose career choices have been chastened by the stock market crash. But if the plummeting paper value of American industry has stripped off the veneer of vanity from the real world, the issues that motivate Wolfe's characters are still the same...