Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attorneys will argue that jurors could have perceived that the victim, who has since died in a Florida car crash, was more credible because cameras weren't allowed to focus...
...year stay in Fat City was ending. Profits were shrinking: during the second quarter of 1987, U.S. brokerages generated $553 million in pretax income, in contrast to $2 billion in the first three months of the year. Retrenchment of some kind was already in the cards. Last week's crash guaranteed that it will be harsher than was previously expected...
...companies. On Black Monday, the specialists grimly fulfilled their responsibilities, buying millions of shares as prices plunged all around them. Their losses could amount to as much as $750 million. The shock was too much for A.B. Tompane & Co., a 60-year-old specialist company that survived the 1929 Crash and traded in USX Corp. and Royal Dutch/ Shell Group, among other stocks. Last week Tompane sold out to Merrill Lynch for an undisclosed sum. Also merged out of existence was W. Damm M. Frank & Co., an American Stock Exchange specialist that traded in 30 Amex stocks before the crash...
COVER: The Crash of '87 sends stock markets around the world plummeting to record losses...
...more likely now. -- In an exclusive interview, Treasury Secretary James Baker gives the Administration' s view of the tumult. -- One way or another, everyone is in the market, and anyone can lose. -- Wall Street' s investment houses brace for hard times. -- Some prescient and lucky investors survive the crash in fine shape. -- Six ways to curb America' s budget and trade deficits. -- 1929: the way it was the last time...