Word: slide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much of Asia will be catching its breath. How bad is that? At the outside, economists warn that the crimp on good times might lead to a worldwide capital crunch and a massive stock-market slide. But that is seen as a remote prospect...
...those on Israel's far right who have benefited from his dollars, Moskowitz is a hero dedicated to restoring all the biblical land of Israel to Jewish possession. He has called the 1993 Oslo peace accords part of a "slide toward concessions, surrender and Israeli suicide" that he is determined to stop. But to many other Israelis he is a meddling, unwelcome outsider, hurling matches, as one local commentator put it, into the Israeli-Palestinian tinderbox, while living safely himself in the U.S. And to the Palestinians, he is one more example of why their hopes for a homeland...
...paid to go to class. Sign up as a media aide and you'll learn the wonders of overhead projectors, slide carousels and videotape...
...maybe a grim, post-war Gilligan's Island, with Stewart as an old-dog Skipper forced to yield to the "push-button world" and the ice-cold young German (the Professor?) who embodies it. You'll wince, maybe proudly, when Stewart tells us that "the little men with the slide rules and the computers are going to inherit the Earth." And then consider that this week, the whole thing could have been filmed off the coast of New Jersey...
...certainly looks like people were overly optimistic about the Southeast Asian economies," says Baumohl. "They pegged their currencies close to the U.S. dollar, but they didn't have the same strong conditions there that the U.S. is experiencing." In a surprise effort to stop the slide, Malaysia last week restricted stock trading. But that further scared investors, worsening the fall...