Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Money manager Paul Tudor Jones makes money every year -- he made 201% in the crash year 1987 -- so in May I paid special attention when he gave a gloomy interview in Barron's. If Jones thought the Dow was precarious at 2650, so did I. It zoomed, leaving me with my puts and my shorts and my dwarfs...
...Eastern docility in the face of aggressive Western sales forces is 40 years of communism. "It is hard to imagine what the central command system did to people," says Stahmer. "Too many of them just sit and wait for instructions. They lack initiative and judgment. It's a crash course, but they are learning fast...
...undergraduate at Princeton. She developed it in her senior thesis and, since her graduation in 1989, has pursued it with obsessive zeal, organizing recruiters at 100 campuses and raising $2 million in corporate and foundation gifts. The basic notion is that non-education majors, after a crash course of training, will serve two-year stints as teachers in U.S. public schools in a sort of domestic education equivalent of the Peace Corps...
...wannabes has given way to a new age of moderation and caution. Dynasty, meet Roseanne. In its June survey, the Conference Board, which every month measures consumer confidence across the U.S., found people more worried than at any time since 1987. The economic shock therapy that began with the Crash of '87 and continues with the $500 billion savings and loan debacle has given Americans a new appreciation of limits...
...Northeast, which has been reeling from tight credit and downturns in everything from computers to construction. In Massachusetts the unemployment rate has surged from 3% in 1988 to 5.8%. Meanwhile, the securities industry has laid off 45,000 employees, or about 10% of its work force, since the 1987 crash. The hard times caused home sales to slide 15% in the Northeast last year. "It's hard to see how things could get terribly much worse in the region," says Samuel Hayes, a professor at the Harvard Business School...