Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crimson goaltender Stephen Hall continually sailed 70-yd. punts up the field. Speed demons Nick Hotchkin, Derek Mills and Nick D'Onofrio raced after them on the fast break. And the Harvard offense fired a bevy of shots at Goldstein...
...game was very fast, especially in the first half," Getman said. "Both teams were running themselves ragged...
David E.'s campaign flyers declare that "they'll do anything to get David E. Sullivan off the City Council," and blame David J's candidacy on "the big-time developers, the slum landlords, the patronage politicians, the fast-buck condo converters...
...last week, that sense of security dissolved. "I feel a lot poorer today," sighed Bee Fitzpatrick, a New Orleans mother of two. Even if the market recovers some ground over the next few weeks, many people will still be uneasy about the future after seeing how far and how fast stocks can fall. As Columnist Robert Reno of Newsday, a New York newspaper, put it, "Nobody who has been on a falling elevator and survived ever again approaches such a conveyance without a fundamentally reduced degree of confidence...
...like so much scrap paper. On Friday the Dow Jones industrial average plummeted more than 100 points for the first time in history, dropping 108.36. In just one day, the value of 5,000 common U.S. stocks slid $145 billion, or 4.9%. "We're all stunned. Everything happened so fast," declared Byron Wien, portfolio strategist for the Morgan Stanley investment firm. Wall Street's computer-trading mechanisms, which brought so much efficiency to a rising market, were working just as efficiently in reverse. During the week the Dow fell 235.48 points, a record for a single week, closing...