Word: friday
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wild as the week may have looked to spectators, in the trenches on Wall Street it was hand-to-hand combat. I tried to make stands on stocks big and small, only to be overwhelmed by huge sellers. Take General Electric: on Friday I bought shares at $75, then $74 and then $73, and then I doubled down at $72 with 18 minutes left before the bell. For a minute, I wanted a hemlock cocktail, as it flashed on my screen that Microsoft had just overtaken GE as the world's largest capitalization stock. But then the mischievous GE seller...
...Fein's chief negotiator and a hard man, with an impeccable reputation with the top command of the I.R.A., would become the liaison between the I.R.A. and the international commission that is to arrange the disarming of Northern Ireland's paramilitary forces in accordance with terms of the Good Friday agreement. "In a few months' time," said Adams, "when the Assembly is up and running, people will say none of this would have been possible without the President's trip...
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, speaking after the markets closed last Friday, revealed that Fed policymakers are worried that the threat to the U.S. economy from global financial turmoil rivals the danger of wage and price inflation. The Fed is now as likely to cut interest rates, he hinted, as to raise them. "It is just not credible that the U.S. can remain an oasis of prosperity unaffected by a world that is experiencing greatly increased stress," Greenspan said in a speech at the University of California, Berkeley. Then he headed off to join Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin...
...order to satisfy a huge TV audience looking for a reason not to impeach him, fearing that it would hurt them as much as it would hurt him? For whatever reasons of pride and arrogance and poll numbers, the magic word didn't inch out of him until Friday...
...Last Friday, Chicago prosecutors dropped the murder charges against the two boys, citing a crime-laboratory report that confirmed that semen was found on Ryan's underpants. "I was concerned about this confession from the start," says Cook County public guardian Patrick Murphy. "You're worried about kids this young saying anything. It's not like they were scared into--or coerced, or that the police said that the boogeyman is going to get you. They'd just say anything to get out of the room." One report had the boys agreeing to confess after being offered Big Macs...