Word: damp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what part computers that make trades semiautomatically played in touching off the gigantic volume of sell orders. Taking no chances, however, the Big Board after the Monday debacle instituted restrictions on so-called program trades of large portfolios of stock carried out by computer, in order to damp down price swings...
...cold, damp New Haven night passes. The morning doesn't look or feel much different...
...kilns are mounded, cavelike structures of concrete, lighted by air holes in the curved roofs. There is a door at either end, and Ray backed his truck in one. Inside the kiln, soot coated the walls. It was damp and smelled of wet chimney. Ray worked fast, standing on the truck bed, stacking his load on a base left by another woodcutter, filling the kiln up to the ceiling 5 ft. above his head. His safety depends on how well the previous woodcutter stacked his load. Once, warned by a slight noise, he had just enough time to jump away...
...professional shoppers lined up with a fine impartiality, tasting almost everything they encountered en route, whether it was the finest Scottish salmon and Italy's best Parmigiano-Reggiano or dismal Aussie Pie, which was baked and frozen Down Under, with its bland beef filling in a crust much like damp shirt cardboard...
Raquel Ortiz, who opened the closet to discover the fire, said the damp garbage produced a large amount of smoke, but only a small blaze...