Word: diving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dive for a ball, if I don't run out a grounder, if I don't give all that I should, I'm not setting an example," she says. "There's no better feeling than coming through for someone who depends on you, and knowing that they'd do the same...
Then fate took a hand. In mid-June, the economy took a nose dive, dragging corporate profits and federal tax receipts down too. In mid-June Darman boosted his 1991 deficit estimate to $159 billion, up from $138 billion just a month before. Unless a plan for cutting almost $100 billion could be produced by Oct. 1, spending cuts required by Gramm-Rudman would force the layoff of thousands of government workers. Within days, Administration officials began to utter dire predictions. It was the perfect opportunity for a sudden conversion, and Bush took...
Mathers, 66, has seen the land ravaged by the plow, the water sucked from the aquifers and wasted, the oil and mining industries nose-dive, and the children of the plains rush for the rural exits. He was in the Montana legislature for 20 years...
Underlying the races was the state's economy, which took a dive shortly after Gov. Michael S. Dukakis was defeated by George Bush in the 1988 presidential campaign...
...Friday markets generally steadied as traders and investors began to suspect that the earlier nose dive had been an overreaction: nothing so absolutely awful had happened yet. In Manhattan the Dow Jones industrial average climbed 49 points to a close of 2532.92 -- still down 112 points, or 4.2%, for the week and more than 460 points, or 16%, below its July 16 high of just under 3000. But no one could be sure that the worst was over. Some markets, notably bonds, kept right on going down. More important, the threat of war has not begun to fade...