Word: shells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rebels Shell Rwandan Capital...
...Upper management is playing a shell game," Childs says. "Dining services can say they haven't any jobs because departments aren't requesting anyone. Just because the number of students goes down, [that] doesn't mean the amount of maintenance does...
Warfare was the rule last week. Early Monday morning thousands of Zulus, carrying spears, axes, clubs, pistols and a few AK-47 rifles, surged into Johannesburg's main business district. At Shell House, the 21-story office building housing A.N.C. headquarters, security men fired a fusillade at the demonstrators, turning the pavement into a jumble of bleeding bodies and hawkers' overturned stands. A few blocks away, rooftop snipers opened fire, killing several more marchers and sending thousands of demonstrators and office workers fleeing in panic. When the casualties were counted, 53 people were dead and more than 400 injured...
...first time in American history that so much is riding on so little. In the 1920s there were investment pools and trusts. In the investment trusts, a series of shell companies was piled on top of a real company, most often a dividend-paying utility. Each shell company offered a dividend that was dependent on its receiving the dividend from below. The price of each shell company's stock reached such lofty heights that the value of the original company below was lost sight of, and eventually the investment trusts came crashing down...
...temporarily halt automated transactions when the Dow Jones average rises or falls more than 50 points in a day. But even if the mechanisms work temporarily, some experts caution that all the computerized derivatives and other vehicles that Wall Street has developed since the Crash of '87 could keep shell-shocked buyers from returning to the market, out of fear of a new wave of selling. "A circuit breaker shuts off the overload," says Bruce Greenwald, a finance professor at the Columbia Business School and a staff member of the Brady Commission, which studied the Crash...