Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Susan Luke, who works for Sports-medicine, Boston, spoke about "Sensible Weight Management the High Energy Way." She emphasized the danger of crash diets, which wreak havoc on the human metabolism, and said that the correct way to diet is to eat low-fat foods...
Holmes a Court had patiently stalked BHP, a vast mineral and energy conglomerate, for nearly five years, aiming to use the company as the foundation for a global natural- resources empire. His decision to sell was poignant evidence of the changing fortunes wrought by last October's stock-market crash, in which Holmes a Court's empire was perhaps the world's single largest loser...
...week earlier, complying with a directive from Australian stock exchanges for all companies to disclose the damages they suffered in the crash, Holmes a Court gave a stunning account of his companies' net losses, now estimated at $1 billion. Holmes a Court described how his principal companies -- Bell Group, Bell Resources and J.N. Taylor Holdings -- suffered an avalanche of falling stock prices in their wide holdings in energy, banking, mining and retailing. As the Holmes a Court companies took losses on these investments, their own shares collapsed as well. The stock-market value of the Holmes a Court corporations plunged...
Reeling from Oct. 19's plunge, Holmes a Court suffered a devastating blow four days later when Merrill Lynch canceled plans to raise $720 million for him by issuing low-interest securities. In the days before the crash, the Merrill Lynch debt issue seemed destined to give Holmes a Court the buying - power to finance his planned intercontinental behemoth. Even after the crash, the money might have helped him hang on to the investments he had already acquired. But without the financing, he was forced to meet obligations by selling off stocks at the worst possible moment, when they were...
Student turnout was very light, and several students had to receive crash courses on how to use Cambridge's punch card machines, election officials said. At least one student looked puzzled as she asked if she was supposed to go into one of the curtained booths...