Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...almost amounts to a career specialization in cleaning up Wall Street's questionable practices. Said Giuliani last week: "This is a lesson to people who want to be millionaires in their 30s: better do it legally." In reply, an angry Wall Street official termed the arrests "a masterfully orchestrated shock designed to scare the hell out of the investment-banking community...
Wall Street reacted to the latest arrests with shock and fear. Says Jerome Markowitz, head of equity trading at the L.F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin brokerage firm: "These are not fly-by-night operations. The firms and the people are the cream of the crop." Predicted Pierre Rinfret, a leading Manhattan money manager: "You ain't seen nothing yet. Before it's all over, hundreds of people may end up behind bars...
...NEWS that the Soviet Union is to hold elections came as a shock to some, but I recognized it as the opportunity of a lifetime: my chance to become top dog in a well-known and prestigious police state. I packed my bags at once for the ancestral home of the Tsars...
trying to recover from the shock of seeing their...
Getting fired, though, is always a jolt. Once the shock has worn off, many people are left with a fragile sense of self-esteem. Even those who remain at work are affected by layoffs, suffering both from what is often called survivor's guilt and from apprehension about their own jobs. Says Elizabeth Uporsky, 30, an accounts-receivable specialist at AT&T, which is undergoing major staff reductions: "Everybody is walking around on pins and needles wondering if they're going to be next. We're reminded of what's happening every day. We have rows and rows of empty...