Word: fled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unequivocally condemned" a republican bombing. With unprecedented haste and over the objections of civil rights advocates, the governments in both Dublin and London required only two days to pass new anti-terrorist legislation, which will make it easier to send terrorists to prison. The leaders of the Real I.R.A. fled their homes in the Republic, and the organization seems...
...wrenching weeks, there was a net outflow of $5.4 billion, or well under 1% of the total invested in equity funds. Though this was the first such exodus since the recession and stock slump of 1990, the number is still quite modest when compared with the 4% that fled equity funds after the October 1987 correction. Last week investors pulled a net $6.2 billion out of stock funds Monday and Tuesday, but on Wednesday a net $6.5 billion flowed right back as the market bounced, according to Trim Tabs Financial Services. "There has not been any retail panic...
...currencies came under fresh assault late last week. Brazil saw $11 billion in capital fleeing the country in the past five weeks--not because its economy is weak but because of each investor's fear that other investors might flee any economy slurred with the label "emerging." Money also fled the stocks of financial institutions with lots of business and investment in the emerging markets. Citicorp's stock dropped to about half of its recent high, losing $40 billion of market value...
...cars. Road construction further slowed progress. By morning the scene along Interstate 10 outside Pensacola was like something from a grade-B disaster film. Jarrell estimates 10,000 people were stranded on the highways, listening to ever more urgent broadcasts on their radios. Some drivers abandoned their cars and fled for high ground...
When NANSOOK HONG was 15, she was summoned to New York City to become the wife of the first son and heir of the REV. SUN MYUNG MOON and part of the Moonies' first family. Early one morning 14 years later, she fled the Moonie compound in a van in which her five children were hiding. In case all those mass weddings didn't tip us off that life as a Moonie is not very sunny, she has written a book, In the Shadow of the Moons, about her ordeal. Her husband, she says, who hadn't wanted to marry...