Word: crashing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...These children can frighten you," says Rocky Morris, a fireman at Engine 16. He is interrupted by the crash of a vase thrown through a living-room window 16 stories above his head. As shards of glass rain onto the parking lot, Morris shoots a sardonic look toward a teenager whose face pokes through the shattered window. "We'll find who did that, and we'll work with that person," he says. "We can address them because most of us were raised in these projects." He pauses, then offers a comment that his colleagues would surely echo. "You know...
...back years, first at Paramount Pictures and then at Disney, where they presided over one of the most spectacular turnarounds in Hollywood history. But after 10 very good years, bad things started to happen. Frank Wells, Disney's charismatic No. 2 man, was killed in an April 1994 helicopter crash. Four months later, Eisner required emergency bypass surgery. To Katzenberg this seemed a logical time for his own advancement. He lobbied strenuously for the Wells...
...first circuit breaker kicked in, around 2:35 p.m., and trading was stopped for 30 minutes. "It was eerie," says an exchange clerk. "I was shocked when I heard the bell stop trading." It was the first time circuit breakers had been triggered since their introduction after the 1987 crash. But the break seemed to unnerve traders. The market reopened to another wave of selling. The second break came less than an hour later, at 3:30, when the market shut for the day a half hour early. It had dropped a one-day record in points, although...
...bullish, the big shots who dialed in got a dose of fear that would have chilled Roosevelt in '32. Biggs, it seems, had just come back from the Far East, and he was terrified by what he saw. He invoked all the bearish icons: the Great Depression, the Crash of '29 (I guess '87 seemed too benign), 40%-to-50% declines ahead in emerging markets, and, of course, the long-awaited great bear market in the U.S. Sure, he threw in a couple of caveats, but the tone was all scare. You could see the market aflame even before Biggs...
...movie plot engineering (up to this point, we've only seen him capitalizing on tragedy and weighing the pros and cons of seducing Lori). Halfway into the film, two wolfish network producers inexplicably show us a clip of Brackett and anchor Hollander on the site of a gruesome airplane crash. Shaken by the carnage he has just witnessed, Brackett explodes at Hollander's request for a gory description of the scene, humiliating his powerful colleague on national television and establishing himself as a sensitive man damaged permanently by the unholy forces of the media. The segment itself (based loosely...