Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardest hit of all last week were Wall Street's specialist firms, the traders who are charged with maintaining orderly markets. That task requires them to purchase stocks when there are no other buyers and to make sales when other sellers disappear. Until last week, a total of 52 specialist firms worked on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange; each handled the shares of 20 to 30 specified Big Board companies. On Black Monday, the specialists grimly fulfilled their responsibilities, buying millions of shares as prices plunged all around them. Their losses could amount to as much...
...that trend spreads to other companies and the legions of home entrepreneurs keep growing, the impact is only beginning to be felt. Traditional workplaces are not going to disappear, but more and more professionals will have a choice: the camaraderie of gathering around the office coffee machine or the freedom of working at home...
Right in front of my eyes was a huge glob of illegally dumped waste. The foamy brown scum floated slowly into shore. As it enveloped the shore break, the water would streak brown in the air, crash down in a spray of yellowish-white, and then disappear into the sand. Wave after wave of scum vanished in this fashion, while little children splashed in the waves. New Jerseyites were literally swimming in their own feces...
These debilities are unlikely to disappear anytime soon. Much of North Korea's economic backwardness stems from the country's imposing military buildup aimed at the prosperous South. Pyongyang is estimated to spend about 25% of its GNP annually on arms -- one of the highest proportions in the world. One result: North Korea is so broke that even China and the Soviet Union, Kim's two strongest military allies, have delayed oil shipments to the country because Pyongyang has been slow to pay its bills. Western observers also feel that North Korea's plight will never improve so long...
Parts of Chambers County, Texas, have lost 9 ft. of coast to Galveston Bay in the past nine months. Louisiana has shrunk by 300 sq. mi. since 1970; entire parishes may disappear in the next 50 years. At Boca Grande Pass, an inlet on the Gulf Coast of Florida, some 200 million cu. yds. of sand have been carried seaward by the tidal currents. In North Carolina, where erosion this year alone has cut into beachfront property up to 60 ft. in places, the venerable Cape Hatteras lighthouse is in peril of the encroaching sea. Soon it must either...