Word: historyes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the book's jacket-hype calls it "a major work of documentary history and the...personal record of a beloved president," most of Speaking My Mind is less a valuable look inside Reagan's mind than a tribute to the rhetorical skills of his speechwriters.
For the first two sets of the game, however, it looked as if history would repeat itself as Princeton settled into an all-too-familiar routine and won, 15-3, 15-6.
Harvard, however, decided to make some history of its own. Down 11-6 in the third set, a Schossberger block sent the Crimson off on its quest.
The sell-off was the sharpest since the market plunged 508 points on Oct. 19, 1987. In terms of points, it was the second largest loss in Wall Street history; in percentage, the day ranked twelfth worst. "It's total emotional and psychological chaos," said Eugene Peroni, an analyst with...
To many investors, the most disturbing aspect of the Wall Street slide was its breathless speed. "We have a history of market bubbles and panics," says Allen Sinai, chief economist for the Boston Company Economic Advisors. "But because of the advance in communications, corrections that used to take days, weeks...