Word: crashing
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Think back on the presidencies of people who did that part of the job well: John Kennedy answering a press-conference question on the Van Allen Belt or Ronald Reagan comforting the families of servicemen killed in a Christmas-season air crash or even Bill Clinton, the debate-team show-off himself, talking to black ministers in Memphis...
...WALL Street couldn't stand the news that another part of the economy--the one in which people work for a living--is having a better time of it. How else explain the 171-point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average that, for investors, evoked memories of the Crash of 1987? The same bulls who had gleefully stampeded in the midst of corporate layoffs let out a bellow of pain last Friday, when the Labor Department reported that the U.S. had created 705,000 jobs in February, more than twice what had been expected. The market plunged from...
...stock-market traders have rephrased the proverb, What goes up must come down. But that ancient bit of sententiousness is out of favor on Wall Street today. To be sure, no one quite dares to predict that after more than eight years of almost vertical ascent since the Crash of '87, share prices can keep going up forever. There are some signs of nervousness that one of these days a financial version of the law of gravity will reassert itself, as evidenced by last week's 94-point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average, to 5536. But majority opinion...
Students in lecture halls B and C heard the crash, but the classes were not interrupted...
Three Harvard police units responded to the crash. Officers closed off the long corridor on the first floor of the Science Center as well as the open area at the bottom of the stairs...