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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...convinced this bill will cost jobs and damage our economic growth," Reagan said in focusing his veto message on a provision that would require companies to give their employees notice of plant closings and large-scale layoffs...
...investment houses choose this moment to scale back index arbitrage? Wall Street insiders cite a variety of reasons, but the clincher seems to have been the threat of one of their biggest clients, Maurice . Greenberg, head of the insurance giant American International Group, to stop doing business with companies that continue to profit from program trading. If the firms hoped their announcement would head off further criticism, they were quickly disappointed. At Senate committee hearings the next day, former Treasury Secretary Donald Regan took time off from promoting his new book to urge suspension of all index futures trades...
...crews dropped their hoses and sprinted for the exits, followed by most of the 74-man work force. Within minutes, the flames reached containers of highly combustible sodium perchlorate and other chemicals, and four explosions hurled fireballs and toxic black plumes skyward. A concussion measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale flipped over cars and shattered thousands of windows in the Las Vegas area. Although 350 people were treated for burns or minor injuries, there appeared to be only two deaths. Nevada Governor Richard Bryan called it a "miracle" that a blast so large had taken a toll so small...
...major earthquake would rock San Francisco on May 5. She was out of the city on that day, which may or may not show that she takes her own forecasts seriously. But May 5 came and went with nary a tremble -- except perhaps on Quigley's personal Richter scale. That was the last day of blissful anonymity for the First Lady's astrologer...
...scale of interesting lives, Hayden's probably rates about 8.5. Alas, he retells it in a cliche-strewn prose, participles adangle, that rarely rises above a 5. Still, readers who can endure the rhetorical posturing -- New York police, at one point, become the "expected forces of the military- industrial complex" -- should find his account of the Chicago convention and trial fast paced and diverting. There is also a moving, elegiac coda in which Hayden revisits Mississippi with his ex-wife Casey and tours Port Huron, Mich., in search of the spot where the SDS was born...