Word: overhang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sure, reporters aren't supposed to cheer in the pressbox. But when Ted Donato ripped a slapshot past Rensselaer goaltender Sean Kennedy with five seconds left to play Saturday night, forcing overtime, the rulebook went out the window once again. The media types in Bright's west-end overhang screamed just as loudly as the rowdies in section...
...resale in the Soviet Union for rubles. While some economists dismiss this as a palliative, it could bring several benefits. The goods -- clothing, household electronics, large items like autos -- could be sold at whatever the market would bear. This would absorb much of the $670 billion of savings "overhang" locked up in banks or stashed away at home because Soviet shoppers can find nothing worth buying. Sopping up that excess cash would make subsequent restructuring, from price reform to the convertibility of the ruble, less likely to produce hyperinflation...