Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wilderness -- that they have finally achieved wisdom through suffering. Unlike earlier defeats, there was something particularly chastening about 1984. Walter Mondale was the candidate of the party establishment who was nominated at a well-choreographed convention -- and still he lost 49 states. "Nineteen eighty-four was a massive shock of realism," recalls Texas Democratic Chairman Bob Slagle. "The party discovered that people didn't like Democrats anymore; they thought we were just single-issue people." The lesson was unmistakable: any party that has not carried a single state larger than ; Georgia (twelve electoral votes) since 1976 cannot afford the luxury...
...exchanges, at which the simultaneous program trading of stocks in New York City and index futures in Chicago can create fearsome volatility, agreed to impose restrictions when prices begin falling out of control. One safeguard will be a "shock absorber," a half an hour price floor that will go into effect on the Standard & Poor's 500 index whenever it drops on the Merc by the equivalent of about 96 points on the Dow Jones average. Under even more stormy conditions, if the Dow drops 250 points, a "circuit breaker" would halt trading for one hour on both...
...also does not hurt that the diminutive ( 5 ft. 2 in.) Lipsig can handle jurors' emotions with the finesse of a symphony conductor. The faces in the jury box registered grief and shock during Lipsig's opening statement in Chernow's suit as the maestro described the doctor's tragic demise: picked up by a front fender, smashed into a "shatterproof" windshield, to "land with a thud on the roadway" with "52 bone fractures." After just one day of trial, the city threw in the towel and settled for an undisclosed amount. "Trying a case against him was like playing...
...environment, economy and people. Crop failures, farm bankruptcies, high food costs, transportation disruption, municipal water shortages -- bad as all these are, they are familiar difficulties. Now there is the threat of other, more subtle damage. In California's Silicon Valley, a plan to cut pure reservoir supplies sent a shock through the semiconductor industry. Ionizing mineral-laden well water to the proper purity would send the water-treatment bills for just six firms from $2.1 million to $4.9 million, threatening their competitive positions and jobs. The San Francisco water authorities were successfully lobbied to hold off for this year...
Traumatic injuries -- including violent accidents, shootings and stabbings -- are the leading cause of death among Americans between the ages of one and 44. The bleeding and shock that frequently ensue demand a degree of speed and precision not often available in most hospital emergency rooms. Experts believe that of the more than 140,000 Americans who are killed by traumatic injuries each year, at least 25,000 die needlessly because they do not receive the proper care in time...