Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hutton branches. In addition, 83 Hutton offices were involved in multiple transfers that moved money among a series of banks on its way between Hutton offices. As much as $10 billion was involved over a 20-month period starting in July 1980, during which time short-term interest rates rose to more than 20%. Thus the practices provided E.F. Hutton with interest-free loans of as much as $250 million...
...managing director, the company was almost moribund. It had not paid a dividend in four years, had more than $1 billion in debts and was losing $6 million a month. Olivetti is now the most profitable Italian industrial company. Last year sales increased 22.5%, to $2.6 billion, and profits rose to $201 million...
Mary MacKinnon, in left, was the outfield's defensive standout, sporting a strong and accurate arm. And Mary Paul demonstrated a Pete Rose-like ability to play a variety of positions--hustling...
...fireball that rose over a conifer forest in the remote Stony Tunguska River basin in central Siberia on the morning of June 30, 1908, reached an altitude of twelve miles, and the blast was heard hundreds of miles away. Those closest to the explosion, the townspeople of Vanavara, 40 miles away, felt a wave of intense heat; windows cracked, objects fell from walls, and one man sitting on his porch was thrown several yards and knocked unconscious. Trees were flattened and scorched over an area of several hundred square miles, their felled trunks all pointing away from the epicenter...
...order came over the radio: the last Israeli soldiers on 6,450-ft. Mount Baruk and along the once fortified slopes of Lebanon's Bekaa Valley were to mount their tanks and armored personnel carriers and head south. There came a shout: "To the trucks!" A whoop rose from the troops, and with that the Israeli army began withdrawing from the southeast sector of Lebanon, where 8,000 Israeli soldiers had faced 30,000 Syrians since the 1982 Israeli invasion...