Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stock-market investors were the first to feel the pain. Records fell to the stock-market floor last week like so much scrap paper. On Friday the Dow Jones industrial average plummeted more than 100 points for the first time in history, dropping 108.36. In just one day, the value of 5,000 common U.S. stocks slid $145 billion, or 4.9%. "We're all stunned. Everything happened so fast," declared Byron Wien, portfolio strategist for the Morgan Stanley investment firm. Wall Street's computer-trading mechanisms, which brought so much efficiency to a rising market, were working just as efficiently...
...just broken up with my high school boyfriend over the phone--it's an old story. My first thoughts were to consume--shut out the pain with a cigarette, a bar of chocolate, or a hot mug of coffee. I wanted to be reminded of home, of friends, family, security...
...said she wanted to see the buildings where I had been and where I would be so that she could see them from California. I showed her Au Bon Pain, recognizing the red sign, and then we tried to find my dorm room. She didn't know what she had expected, but it wasn't the bicycle, stray newspapers, and beer bottles on the floor. After that, I didn't know which school buildings we should see. I didn't know which would be important...
...spring reading period. I haven't slept in at least two days. The pile of laundry in my room has become a health violation. I've left the computer only twice in the past 24 hours--to buy sandwiches and iced tea at Au Bon Pain. My final Expos paper is already overdue and I have another 20-page paper to write as soon as I finish this...
...music. So why shouldn't the father of '50s rock 'n' roll look like every white kid's slumber-party dream of Satan? A slim body, supple as sin. Wavy hair, drenched in Valvoline and just full enough to hide those telltale horns. A face already etched with pain and promises. Cocoa-color skin drawn taut over Jack Palance cheekbones. A smile that offered a great time on the way down. Chuck Berry might sing about School Days and Johnny B. Goode, but teens knew that his songs -- from the opening guitar riff through the four-on-the-floor chorus...