Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effects being felt here in Harvard's classrooms. Suppose the teaching fellows of Social Analysis 10: "Principles of Economics" are using a mainframe computer in Littauer to model the United States' gross domestic product from 1950 to 2050. Someone might be a bit curious after noticing a 50 percent drop in output after...
...team which will emerge from the American League is Cleveland. Remember how Seattle almost beat them in 1995? A similar thing will happen in their epic seven-game series. Ken Griffey, Jr., will drop a routine fly ball in the ninth inning of the decisive game. Phil Knight weeps bitter tears...
...turned away from Bill Clinton's fund-raising party--not convicted felons, not Buddhist monks bearing someone else's money, not even a Russian mobster. But few of them felt the need to be quite as discreet as Carl Lindner, the banana king who had a bundle to drop in the last election...
Even as some Wall Street analysts downplayed the impact of the settlement last week, the stock of several tobacco companies took a drubbing. Among them was Philip Morris, which plunged $17.50 a share to finish trading for the week at $111.50--a drop of 13.6% or $14 billion in market value. Also punished was stock of RJR Nabisco, parent company of R.J. Reynolds (Winston, Camel), which closed at $31 a share on Friday for a five-day drop...
...YORK: Investors fearing more rate hikes by the Fed sent the Dow plunging by more than 216 points, ending the day down 140. The decline is the eighth worst point drop in the Dow's history. Statistics published today showing robust home sales and a decline in unemployment claims -- both signs of the economic growth that the Fed fears will fuel inflation -- helped spark the sell-off. Consolidation of end-of-quarter portfolios in time for the three-day Easter holiday were also to blame. The bond market benefitted from those fears, with yields on 30-year Treasury bonds hitting...