Word: heard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When I heard that Hector Feliciano was reading from his book, Le Musee Disparu, at the Village Voice bookstore in Paris this summer, I didn't know who he was. I did know that I had just arrived in the city and didn't know too many people, and that art looted by the Nazis during World War II was an interesting enough topic to get me on the metro...
...like to maintain my innocence. I would never hurt Matty, and I never did hurt Matty, and I don't know what happened to him. I'm not responsible for his death. I didn't kill Matthew Eappen. That's all." And then, as she did when she first heard the verdict, Woodward collapsed in sobs...
...previously been reserved for such spectacular but very American melodramas as the O.J. Simpson saga. When the guilty verdict was announced, an audience watching in a pub in Woodward's home village of Elton, in northern England, was so taken aback that for a time all that could be heard was the amplified sound of the teenager crying in the courtroom 3,000 miles away. The American justice system came under attack. Alarmed by Leone's masterful summation, some complained that the defense should have had the final word, as it does in Britain. Furthermore, says British legal expert Stephen...
...express concern that a "wall of fear" might start to build on itself. When the Dow dropped 350 points, the first circuit breaker kicked in, around 2:35 p.m., and trading was stopped for 30 minutes. "It was eerie," says an exchange clerk. "I was shocked when I heard the bell stop trading." It was the first time circuit breakers had been triggered since their introduction after the 1987 crash. But the break seemed to unnerve traders. The market reopened to another wave of selling. The second break came less than an hour later, at 3:30, when the market...
...declines ahead in emerging markets, and, of course, the long-awaited great bear market in the U.S. Sure, he threw in a couple of caveats, but the tone was all scare. You could see the market aflame even before Biggs had finished spraying lighter fluid. Within minutes I heard traders tell me everything from "Biggs thinks this is the end" to "Biggs says get out now because the market's gonna crash today." No matter that Biggs had been wrong before, including a devastating get-out-of-tech call right at the bottom in 1996. Biggs has clout; he could...