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...harrowing, sinking feeling that has become all too familiar on Wall Street. Pessimism verging on panic. Stock prices plunging in a free fall. Last Friday the Dow Jones industrial average suffered its third largest drop in history, plummeting 140.58 points to close at 1911.31. Fortunately, the worst of the rout began after 2:30 p.m., and there was not enough time for a full-fledged disaster before the New York Stock Exchange's 4 p.m. closing bell. By the end of the day, however, traders could not help but think back to the 108.36-point fall on Friday...
Each week, Harvay ranks the nation's worst football teams--Columbia has been on the list all this year--and picks what he calls "the rout of the week...
...lack of major college football games this weekend left Harvey with-out a good choice for his rout. So he turned to the NCAA Men's Soccer Tournament, and chose Harvard as a huge winner over the Aztecs...
...didn't last. With less than four minutes remaining in the first four minutes remaining in the first half, Holy Cross marched down the field and scored on a 23-yd. run by fullback Willie Bradford. The hosts added two touchdown early in the third quarter, and rout...
...bearish rout on the stock exchange turned facile assumptions about the 1988 race into so much bull. It silenced complaints that the campaign was devoid of cutting issues and dashed Republican hopes of an election predicated on the Reaganite themes of stability and prosperity. The political futures index tilted toward the Democrats, as mayhem in the markets revived fears of recession. Four times in this century the Democrats have regained the White House following a Republican incumbency, each time against the backdrop of a sharp economic downturn...