Word: crashing
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Government efforts to help agriculture in general have not been especially effective for small farmers. Because of the credit crunch after the crash of 1987 and the millions of dollars in loans that went bad in the drought of the late eighties, the low interest rates of the past year and a half have not helped farmers as much as urban professionals. The constant battles over GATT and the EEC's agricultural subsidies have been more on behalf of big farming; small producers only feel the benefits of decreased foreign subsidies over several years, when market prices reset themselves...
...strong believer. During the crash of my airplane last year in Sudan, I saw two visions. The first was of my brothers who had died -- Abu Jihad, Abu Iyad and the others. The others on the airplane heard me say, "Wait for me, I am coming." Directly after that I saw the Al Aksa mosque in Jerusalem. Which meant that I will live to pray there...
...bureaucrats haven't continued to pursue monumental, street- life-killing projects. Since 1981 the plan for 42nd Street envisioned four monstrous office towers. Lawsuits filed against that plan by neighborhood porno impresarios were beaten back, but they delayed the project for years -- enough time, fortuitously, for the real estate crash to kill it last year. Because the developers still dream of building their high-rises around the turn of the century, they have acceded to the new vision for 42nd Street grudgingly, and insist that it is only a temporary recasting. But if Disney and other entertainment big boys become...
Kathrin, who is four months pregnant, survived the ensuing crash unharmed. By Friday, police had already arrested the 20-year-old triggerwoman, a 5-ft. 3-in., 210 pounder with gold-capped teeth whom friends likened to "Gangsta Bitch," the tough street woman described in the rap song by Apache. Police also grabbed Alvan Hudson, 19, who they say was in the truck as well. The day before, they arrested the driver of the truck, Recondall Wiggins, 19, who seemed so stunned by the deed that he ran to confess it to his mother, a secretary in the Metro Dade...
...specter of 1987 haunts one," saysPresident Neil L. Rudenstine, referring to theinfamous Black Monday crash that sent the U.S.market reeling by nearly 23 percent on October19th of that year. Unlike many investors, Harvardunder Cabot weathered Black Monday quite well, asdid the New York-based Rockefeller Foundation,then under Meyer's financial leadership...