Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sharis' personal highlight that year came in February when the rowing neophyte set a new world record for collegians at the Crash-B Sprints with a scorching 7:37.4 in the 2500-meter competition...
Junior year saw more of the same for Sharis--winning another collegiate Crash-B title, another Sprints title and national championship, and making the trip to Henley where the Crimson was narrowly defeated in the finals for the Ladies Plate...
...well, Cabot was praised by many in the investment field for protecting Harvard assets during the Black Monday market crash in October, 1987 and actually turning a profit for the University at the same time most investors suffered massive losses...
Cabot was criticized roundly in the media for missing out on the boom which followed the 1987 crash, and last year, the performance of Harvard holdings fell below the major indices and the market averages...
...peculiar experience of the Class of '90 is that the formative events of our youth occurred amid conscious efforts at national carelessness. From the 1987 financial crash, to the 1988 presidential election, to the brought-to-you-by-TV revolutions abroad of 1989, we lived the era of Change via Remote control. The program trading of computers, the media-manipulating spin-doctors and the unforeseen uprising of millions abroad conspired to take events out of our hands. And we were content to let them...