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...Tuesday's trading day, the Dow had plummeted 5% to 9,447.11. The other major indices declined as well with the NASDAQ down 5.8%, the S&P 500 down 5.74%, while investors retreated to traditional safe harbors such as gold, which was up $17.10 to $833.80, and oil, up $3.39 to $91.20 respectively...
...this took place a day after many of the world's major stock indices had experienced their largest percentage point drop since the October 1987 crash. American investors, it seems, are still worried about what may be on financial companies' balance sheets. The ad-hoc nature of the European response to its banking crisis has also raised concerns. Investors were clearly worried that even if a global financial meltdown is averted, a broad recession may be inevitable. And so, as governments attend to one crisis, the markets discover another to fret about - and the cycle of panic continues...
...kind of cross-unit collaboration as well that crosses intellectual boundaries,” will be a combined project between SEAS and the Medical School with faculty members from both institutions leading the initiative. Though the two schools are currently slated to be the major players of the project, Frans A. Spaepen, who became interim dean of SEAS this September, said that there has been interest in collaborating with other institutions in the area such as MIT and Boston University...
...major factor in DeAngelo’s success in her new role is undoubtedly the relationship she and her classmate share in the boat. The rookies have been sailing as a pair since preseason...
...founding Weathermen came from comfortable, highly-educated backgrounds and felt the need to escape their sheltered bourgeoisie life. They moved into collectives, practiced forced sexual rotation, took weapons training, and planned attacks on the wealthy and powerful. By October 1969, the group was ready for its first major attack: four "Days of Rage," in Chicago's affluent Gold Coast neighborhood. The Weatherman boasted that thousands of student warriors would flood city streets with violence and destruction, but only a few hundred people showed up. Six Weathermen were shot and 287 arrested. The riots were deemed a failure...