Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Diederich and TIME Photographer P.F. Bentley began taking pictures, shots rang out. "The Tonton Macoutes and the army were coming back to finish the job, to kill the journalists," said Bentley. "We raced toward the back door of the school, running over bodies as we left. A British reporter in front of me was hit in the lower leg. We were totally defenseless: no guns, just cameras." Still under fire, Bentley scaled a 10-ft.-high cinder-block wall, scrambled over another wall strung with barbed wire and finally escaped down a maze of narrow passages...
...time the 4 p.m. closing bell rang at the New York Stock Exchange on what instantly became known as Black Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average had plunged 508 points, or an incredible 22.6%, to close for the day at 1738.74. Some $500 billion in paper value, a sum equal to the entire gross national product of France, vanished into thin air. Volume on the New York exchange topped 600 million shares, nearly doubling the all-time record. Brokers could find only one word to describe the rout, an old word long gone out of fashion but resurrected because...
Tony Cafazza, 46, owner of a St. Louis company that sells and services cash registers, rang up profits even as the crash began. Cafazza had sold his stock holdings during the previous three months, for a profit of $100,000. Then, in September, he bought so-called puts on General Motors -- options to sell the company's stock at a fixed price in the future. On the Friday before Black Monday, as GM stock nose-dived 4 7/8 points to close at 66, Cafazza cashed in his options, which soared in value because their set purchase price was higher than...
...Bells rang...
Grandma never forgot to bring her notorious cowbell, which she rang whenever Columbia did anything good. Other fans had only to hear the bell to know that she was at the game...