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...Huskie who hasn't felt the scoring slump is junior All-America Dan Donigan. Heading into tomorrow's contest, Donigan is averaging one goal for every 3.5 shots...
...things got scary along the way. A lot of things. An inconsistent line-up, a scoring slump, an injured backfield, and a sidelined captain all could have caused a Crimson down-fall. The moments were there: struggling at Columbia in the league opener in New York, deadlocked, 0-0, with lowly Boston College with only minutes to go in overtime, trailing Princeton, 3-0, midway through the second period...
...major impact on local economies. With the monumental exception of Tokyo, now the world's largest stock market (with a value of almost $2.5 trillion, vs. the New York Stock Exchange's $2 trillion), most foreign markets are small * compared with those in the U.S. Before the October slump, shares on the London Stock Exchange were worth $824 billion, those in Paris $200 billion...
...third biggest rise ever, and an additional 563.87 points on Saturday. Controlling the effects of the second-week crash posed a substantial challenge for the lame-duck government of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, who hands over power on Nov. 6 to his successor, Noboru Takeshita. Following Monday's precipitous slump, the Japanese Finance Ministry quietly pressured major trust funds and insurance companies to begin a stock-buying blitz. Most complied, says Economist Kinji Yajima, because "management knows well enough that to ignore such requests is to ask for lots of trouble...
...deregulated stock trading. The anniversary last week was a Big Bath. Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson complained that he did not know why London "should be following Wall Street quite so slavishly." Samuel Brittan, widely respected economic commentator for the Financial Times, ventured a prediction that the stock slump would clip half a point off Britain's 3.0% projected growth rate next year. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called for a healthy dose of budgetary realism in Washington, and Chancellor Lawson reminded tight-fisted central bankers in Bonn that it was a credit crunch that turned the 1929 Crash into...