Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...process rather than result, Huntington dodged the issue; but he acknowledged that Geisel's "decompression" in the mid-'70s did not lead to real democratization in Brazil (p. 16). Brazilians, incidentally, tend to be harsher on Geisel, under whom the Brazilian military continued its dictatorial control behind a thin facade of indirect elections...
...make millions as market mavens, embracing the greed- and-glory smugness that suffused both Wall Street and Washington. An economy that was once based on manufacturing might and inventive genius began pursuing wealth through mergers and takeovers and the creation of new "financial instruments." Fortunes were conjured out of thin air by fresh- faced traders who created nothing more than paper -- gilded castles in the sky held aloft by red suspenders...
...shakes his head. He lost his first match to Ray Taglione, and he can't understand it. He is more muscular than Ray, who is slightly built. It is not uncommon, however, to see a thin-armed man slam down a hulking, muscular arm in a split second. "He had some trick," says Joe. "He knew this thing with his hand." When Joe won his second match in this double-elimination event, his friends leaped out of their seats and cheered. Joe put his head down, embarrassed, and joined his wife in a far corner of the room...
...finally, did the market groan down to its low point for the year. By then the Times's 25 industrials had sunk from 452 in September to 224. Of the $80 billion that the entire market's stocks had been worth in September, $30 billion had vanished into thin...
...Stock Exchange on what instantly became known as Black Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average had plunged 508 points, or an incredible 22.6%, to close for the day at 1738.74. Some $500 billion in paper value, a sum equal to the entire gross national product of France, vanished into thin air. Volume on the New York exchange topped 600 million shares, nearly doubling the all-time record. Brokers could find only one word to describe the rout, an old word long gone out of fashion but resurrected because no other would do: panic. The frenzy rose as it spread once...