Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only 38%. Heminger points out that San Francisco lost two freeways in the 1989 earthquake and has a rusting public-transit system. But as it becomes more obvious that mass transit is the way to relieve pollution and traffic, the Federal and state governments often respond with a collective "Drop dead!" Heminger says the best hope is to raise money through local increases in the gas tax or other levies. Honk if you're on board...
...else done, we would take the fancy headline type back to the wooden cases and carefully drop the letters into their compartments, thunk, thunk, thunk, a contented coda to Whitman's bawdy song. And finally we would turn the lights out and close the shop door, taking a last glance at the press dimly highlighted by the glow from street lamps. We were sure it would be there for us the next week...
...make no mistake, the stock market could crash again. Mechanically, there is nothing in place to guarantee that the Dow won't fall 1000 points by lunch and another 800 points in the afternoon. Get real! An 1,800-point decline today would be the same 23% drop that occurred on Oct. 19, 1987. And that plunge took place after the Dow had already fallen 17% from its speculative peak three months earlier, which was 10 years ago this month. An exact recurrence would put the Dow at 5200 by mid-October...
...dunes under enemy fire. A claims adjuster clambers aboard a car designed to haul caribou carcasses, so he can pick up his wife's fuchsias at the suburban garden center. Did the old man flip his jeep on Omaha Beach? Then his son will have a Jeep too, to drop off the kids at the multiplex. Vroom-vroom...
There are no snakes, no Nazis, no ark or precious stones. There are, however, lots of flying punches, bruised cheekbones and bloody hands, a lovely lady and, of course, the stiff upper lip and drop-dead good looks of Harrison Ford. It may be years later, but Indy hasn't lost his touch for cunning escapes and coming out on top at the end of a long day. Only this time the adventure doesn't star Jones but the President of the United States--and it's not in the jungles of Central America or Asia but in the nation...