Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...During a 1996 speech at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington-based think tank, Greenspan asked his audience whether stock market gains might have been due to "irrational exuberance." The next morning, markets tumbled worldwide, with the Dow Jones industrial average falling 140 points before recovering...
...example, she referred to a large advertisement that ran in early March in The Harvard Crimson and other college newspapers. The advertisement, purchased by a conservative think tank, attacked Menchu, and others who use her book, saying it was written with specific political motives...
...prominence of an industry should have little bearing on current policy. Rep. Dennis Kucinivich (D-Ohio) compared the quota to administration efforts to open Europe's markets to bananas, but his arguments at times verged on the absurd: "Bananas did not build America. Steel did...We cannot build a tank with a banana, we cannot build a plane with a banana, we cannot build ships with a banana. We did not build cars with bananas. We did not build bridges with bananas. We did not build America with bananas. We built America with steel...
...have one." 8mm director Joel Schumacher was equally impressed by the actor's lack of pretension and gift for capturing a character's telling moment or gesture. He recalls how Gandolfini, who plays a pornographer in the film, persuaded him to have a diary hidden in a toilet tank instead of in a silver chest. "Life had taught him that's where the stash is kept," says Schumacher. Bet Ed Norton wouldn't have known that...
...Orpheum last Saturday night. From the last row of the balcony, I was not afforded a proper view of the rising star. The best I could make out was a gel-spiked head which bobbed furiously to the beat of the manic drummer. Clad in a black tank top which accentuated his spindly silhouette, Lang affected and effected the look of a rock star, a proto-Mick. He casually sauntered to and fro between lyrics, strumming with the ease of an old pro. But while the classic demeanor has been perfected to a hyperbole, Lang needs much work on marinating...