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Word: stockings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pink buy and sell orders litter the floor of the Pacific Stock Exchange. "I surrender!" shouts a frustrated dealer. Another slams his fist into his computer terminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: A Shock Felt Round the World | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...Fidelity Investments, manager of $75 billion worth of stock-market mutual funds, investors redeeming shares or switching to other funds swamp the firm. The company invokes a rarely used rule that allows seven days for such orders to be transacted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: A Shock Felt Round the World | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...investors have cabled sell orders, trying to dump shares in the British market. The Financial Times stock index drops 304 points by midday. Says a young dealer: "It is like opening a suitcase the wrong way and having all the contents spill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: A Shock Felt Round the World | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...Stop trading General Mills, influx of orders. Stop trading Northwest Air, influx of orders," command the p.a. speakers at the Pacific Stock Exchange. But the market trend is up. Says Specialist Kurtis Kupiec: "Today the world's a better place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: A Shock Felt Round the World | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...worst is over -- for now. A flood of buy orders propels an explosive rebound on the Kabutocho exchange. As each massive block of offered stock is snapped up, the trading floor erupts in applause. The Nikkei index makes a record gain of 2037.32 points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: A Shock Felt Round the World | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

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