Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pushing the nation into its steepest economic slide since the Great Depression. The very next day, as worried investors around the country hurried to unload their falling stocks, a record 81.6 million shares were sold off on the Big Board in such a headlong rush that the ticker tape reporting transactions and prices fell as much as 63 minutes behind the pace of trading. "This thing is feeding on itself," fretted William LeFevre, vice president at one Wall Street brokerage house. "Each decline triggers another batch of people who have to sell...
...early afternoon, the market was down 20 points and the tape, which had already been delayed half a dozen times, was running nearly half an hour behind the trading. As it did so, the tension increased. At one booth, a cheer went up as a stock that had been doing poorly all morning started to rise. The cheer turned to silence and then to boos as the stock, like a plane that has suddenly stalled, winged over and began to fall. At a trading station, a specialist berated a clerk who had just placed a slice of pizza...
Until now, attempts to get food to the starving Khmers have been hampered by red tape and the anarchic conditions inside Cambodia. The World Food Program, UNICEF and the International Red Cross have been supplying emergency rations to the refugees who have fled into Thailand as well as to the 80,000 Thais who have been displaced from their border villages by the fighting. Initially, Hanoi and the regime of Heng Samrin in Phnom-Penh objected to the relief operation because many of the refugees being helped were considered members or supporters of the Khmer Rouge. But it now appears...
...ideas are stifled by red tape and corporate timidity...
...easy to blame the trade deficit on skyrocketing oil prices, though they are a major cause; Japan, which must import all its oil, has maintained a trade surplus by developing high-technology products and aggressively selling them abroad. A prime example: every one of the million video tape recorders sold in the U.S.-including those marketed under American labels-was developed and made in Japan...