Word: drys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speeds: clouds churn like white water crashing against rocks, water spins dizzyingly and car lights advance so rapidly they been one bright squiggles against a backdrop of blackness. The moon moves across the sky like a second hand on a clock. A lake fills with water and then suddenly drys up. Food decays faster than it could ever be eaten...
...executives were furious when they heard Butcher argue that Chase had no obligation because the bank had been merely a transfer agent between the brokerage houses and Drysdale. Their arrangement had been with Chase, the brokerage houses argued, not with Drys dale. Chase seemed to be breaking the most fundamental rule of Wall Street: a dealer stands behind his deal. Said one an gry brokerage house executive: "We had taken a negative view of Drysdale's opera tions from the start, and we never had any direct dealings with them at all. We did not know for whom Chase...