Word: shotguns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bull market and then a severe slowdown in the securities industry. There were times, he says, when "I slept very well between 2:15 a.m. and 2:30 a.m." In many of the mergers on Wall Street over the past twelve months, Haack has been the man holding the shotgun...
Bandy then took matters into his own hands. Because the tenants had changed house locks, he kicked in one of his own doors in an effort to identify them; he was chased off. He enlisted a local motorcycle gang for a show of force; the occupants displayed a shotgun and would not be moved...
...again, investors have been threatened with loss of the money and stock held for them by brokerage houses that have gone to the brink of insolvency-or fell over it. Repeatedly, the financial community has prevented disaster by rounding up new capital for the failing firm, arranging a shotgun merger or, as a last resort, ransoming customers' stock by making payments out of a $55 million New York Stock Exchange trust fund. Last week Wall Street managed the most dramatic rescue yet, but in doing so apparently exhausted its resources for continuing the cliff-hanger...
...assassination with a mailorder rifle, gun-control proponents have trooped to Congress to tick off the toll of an overarmed people overreacting. In a Washington suburb last week, the death of a junior high student delivering newspapers brought the statistics to life. A single blast from a shotgun pointed at the predawn shadows killed 13-year-old Todd McKinney. The college student who shot him thought Todd's footsteps might belong to a prowler making a fifth attempt to tamper with the family's 1964 Comet. McKinney had planned to contribute his October earnings to the re-election...
This perception makes McCurdy unique, and it's unlikely that Pottetti would have lasted as long as he did with any other coach. "[Penn's Jim] Tuppeny would probably have forced me to run with a shotgun," Pottetti joked...