Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...August day when a house burned down; the principal helped the firemen lug hoses and waited there until the children, his students, came home. He wanted to help them cope with their loss. Or the time he was quick to arrive at the scene of a school-bus crash, comforting victims and helping the rescuers. But most important, the paper said, was his morality and courage under fire: the moment he was accused of wrongdoing, the principal resigned rather than cling to his job. "What was probably his last act as an educator--his resignation--may carry the strongest lesson...
...deal was by any measure a sweet one. He and his partners, which include his brother Charles, now Oaksbranch's president, and his friend Mike Starcher, noticed that a single-tenant office building was significantly undervalued. "At that time, the market was still slightly depressed from the real estate crash in the late 80's," Pettigrew says...
...unleashes as an opportunity to seize dictatorial powers. The televangelist Pat Robertson is marketing a video called Preparing for the Millennium: A CBN News Special Report, which summarizes both the Y2K problem and Robertson's novel, The End of an Age, in which Armageddon is triggered by a meteor crash...
...month, two for the year. It was the middle of the century, and nobody cared much about what would happen at the next click of the cosmic odometer. But today the world runs on computers, and older machines run on jury-rigged versions of COBOL that may well crash or go senile when they hit a double-zero date. So the finger of blame for the approaching crisis should point at Hopper and her COBOL cohorts, right...
Once, before Kennedy was president, I asked him if he remembered the Great Depression. I knew that his father had seen the Crash of 1929 coming and had sold his stocks and had one of the world's greatest hordes of cash during the 1930s. "I have no memory of the Depression as an event," he told me. "We had one of the great fortunes. We traveled more, we had bigger homes and more servants. I learned about the Depression by reading at Harvard." Kennedy, who had been a young Navy hero in World War II, then looked...