Word: labors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last two trading days comprised only a 4.3 percent drop in values, where the 508-point drop of October 19,1987 represented a 22.6 percent drop (to 1,738.74). As Alan Greenspan has all too famously noted, the market has a little air in it. Watch for Friday s Labor Department report to see just how skittish investors have become. A stronger-than-expected showing could set off another Wall Street jolt fearing further interest rate increases by the Fed. For investors, the skinny remains: don't panic. Good news is still good news, and the economy, after...
Looking at the overall state of the game first, a labor agreement between the players and the owners was signed which ensures that we'll have ballgames until the new millemium...
...wildcards will be Florida in the NL and Chicago in the AL. I detest the selfish, hypocritical Jerry Reinsdorf, who opposed the labor deal because he said it would drive up salaries too much, but then signed Albert Belle the same week for 11 million a year. So I eagerly anticipate the White Sox's early exit...
ROBERT REICH Short people got no reason to live? Ex-Labor Secretary has fun with Locked in the Cabinet...
Indeed, many Israelis fear this is only the beginning of a new terror offensive like the one last year that drove Labor Prime Minister Shimon Peres from office. Allowing even one bombing to happen, though, will boomerang harshly on the Palestinians. Israel immediately closed off the territories and promised retaliation; Netanyahu has always kept open the option of sending Israeli troops back into the areas now under Palestinian control. Even worse, he might decide to use the bombing as a pretext to abandon, once and for all, the talks he has always opposed...