Word: quay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to trading, Nick Leeson excelled at partying hard at night. In Singapore, it is a customary coda to the workday. After toiling over charts and numbers, the traders leave en masse for the rows of bars and cafes of the Boat Quay. Some of them tell stories of Leeson as "the wild man." After one late night bout, he was charged with indecent exposure for dropping his pants in front of a group of women. He then gave them his phone number and address and dared them to turn him in. (As good Singaporeans, they did. Leeson was fined...
...skewered atop a drain pipe high above the sunken surface. Worst of all, the groundslip destroyed the thick concrete perimeter wall, which rolled 45 and burst open a gap into the freight yards. Dozens of tractor-trailer trucks and shipping containers slid into the sea-washed breach. Behind the quay wall, strains tore apart the rails carrying dozens of four-legged cranes, behemoths that cost $10 million apiece. Some toppled over, and others were on their...
...that took place on June 26. It was a humid, breezeless day, and flags hung limply on their staffs. Precisely at 2 p.m., the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, bearing an entourage headed by the Prince of Wales as surrogate for his frail, ailing mother, cast off from Portsmouth quay and steamed toward the flotilla. It was an awesome sight: 165 British ships of the line, plus vessels from 14 other nations including the U.S. and Japan. At a signal, seamen scurried to attention on decks and yardarms, and the warships boomed out cannon salutes as the yacht passed...