Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...specter of 1987 haunts one," says HarvardPresident 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...
...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...
...about the ways in which employers, workers and health-care providers are likely to respond to health-care reform. Still, these estimates -- and others by independent economists who predict job losses in the 200,000-to-600,000 range -- galvanized Clinton's health-reform advisers last week into a crash program to refine both their computer models and the health-care plan in order to minimize their forecast of unemployment. Says a worried official: "The jobs issue is probably the most sensitive one we face in health-care reform...
...only to prove false upon human investigation. The growing practice of "ghost riders," for instance, involves people who claim to have sustained injuries while riding public transportation. In a three-year sting operation mounted by the New Jersey Insurance Department, 110 people tried to profit from 10 faked bus crashes. Every "crash" produced fraudulent claims of between...
Will the Serbian conquest of Bosnia and Herzegovina end with a bang or a whimper -- the crash of bombs or the fade-out of NATO's threat to attack? The answer depends on a dozen conflicting motives, but most of all on the Serbs. Once again the confident Bosnian Serbs are playing the U.N. and NATO like stringed instruments. The Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, and his military commander, Ratko Mladic, last week eased the strangulation of Sarajevo a notch, calculating how much would be just enough to make the U.S. and its allies hold fire...