Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...less control than ever. Current events foreshadow his own vicissitudes in a Joycean way: the Pan Am explosion over Lockerbie, Scotland happens right before Rabbit's first heart attack; and as Hurricane Hugo kicks into South Carolina, Rabbit has his second, and final, attack. When the eighties inevitably crash, Rabbit and his family tumble with them...
Meyer is credited with shielding the Rockefeller Foundation's funds from the huge market losses of the October 1987 "Black Monday" market crash...
...Cabot and I] both did a pretty good job in the October 1987 crash. That doesn't give you much information as to how either of us would do in the next big trouble area," says Meyer. "I wish it did, it would probably make things a lot easier...
Smoking, after all, rarely takes over a person's life the way alcohol can. Cigarettes rarely cause people to abuse their children, lie routinely, miss days of work or crash their cars into school buses...
Huddling after the stock-market crash, Illinois Congressman Dan Rostenkowski and Silvio Conte search for long-term cuts...