Word: specter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...short, a close call. But the Journal article warns that the near disaster on the day after the dizzying crash "raises the specter that such a crisis could strike again." Perhaps most worrisome of all is that the stock market shot down on that Monday and up again on Tuesday without any compelling political or economic event serving as the trigger. Should a war, assassination or other crisis of serious proportions strike, no one really knows just what it might do to the world's shaky markets...
...Arlen Specter (R-PA): Judge Reinhold, if God is all-powerful, can he make a rock so big that even he couldn't lift it? Or, following up that line, if a tree falls in the woods, but nobody is around to hear...
Those who watched the Iran and Bork hearings were reminded of how inadequate a capsule summary can be if you've seen the movie. Less familiar committee members -- Inouye, Hamilton, Mitchell, Specter, Simpson -- appealed just because their humanity hadn't vanished behind a professional veneer. They were earnest, perhaps a little verbose, sometimes eloquent, decidedly human, and a welcome change from the usual Washington sound-bite sophisticate...
...hope to keep the raiders from returning to their full glory. The House last week passed a tax bill that, among other things, would put a $5 million cap on interest deductions for debt resulting from takeovers. The measure would inhibit corporate raids, and many Wall Streeters believe the specter of the possible tax change depressed takeover stocks and thus played a role in setting off October's crash. Raiders hope the anti-takeover provision will die in House-Senate conference when lawmakers realize that the tax could drive stock prices still lower...
...major issue confronting Boston this election has been the call for more public housing. The mayor's recent proposal to integrate three housing projects in South Boston has created controvery about how he has dealt with this issue citywide. It has also raised the specter of racial tensions that have haunted Boston since the busing crisis a decade...