Word: dump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last Monday at Meehan Auditorium in Providence, the Pandas and the Crimson went to overtime again, tied at one. But it was Brown's turn to cash in an overtime goal on its own terms: play dump-it-in-and-chase and head for the net on a perimeter shot...
...these are nothing compared with the extremes in him, in brave, dumb Captain Midlife, jogging with the kids, exhaling frost; or out on the town, red-mufflered to the eyes, a Scotch ad beaming with conventional merriment. Inside his aching, brooding head, a mess of city-dump proportions. He crouches in the mind's attic like one of those soldiers who are never told that the war is over, and reads that Michael Korda, a modern adviser on how to live, says that by the time one reaches one's 40s, all emotional and professional problems should be settled...
...Senate bill would require the networks to run at least seven hours a week of educational programming for children. The tone of some lawmakers has grown combative. Says Democratic Representative Edward Markey of Massachusetts: "What was once called a vast wasteland is now more accurately dubbed a vast waste dump...
...Tickers and news reports flashed the story of huge price declines on heavy volume. With each sale, more investors became convinced that a collapse had begun and they had better get out while they still could. Mutual-fund managers tried to hold on but could not; they had to dump stock to get cash to pay off investors who clamored to redeem their fund shares. Margin calls to investors who had bought stock on credit aggravated the frenzy. Some could not put up additional collateral and were sold...
...Government regulation. David Ruder, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, ordered the SEC staff to consider immediately ways to limit future mammoth market swings. Edward Markey, the Democratic chairman of the House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee, has called for hearings into the role of computerized trading programs that dump securities when the market falls...