Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Following Black Monday, Greenspan moved quickly to avert further disaster. The day after the market's plunge, the new Fed chairman cut short a speaking trip to Dallas and hurried back to his ornate second-floor office in Washington's Eccles Building. He had already issued a terse announcement that the nation's central bank would "serve as a source of liquidity to support the economic and financial system." That was a signal that banks would have no difficulty obtaining additional credit as needed to provide for the huge losses sustained by shell-shocked brokerages. Greenspan's announcement produced...
WELL, THE long and short of it is that ultimately I was unable to help the Royal Couple with their marital problems, and by extension, failed to obtain ancestral rights to any portion of the Queen's lands. But my trip was not a complete failure. I was able to buy a watch with a picture of Big Ben on it and one of those furry hats English guards wear. And, more than that, I think I learned a valuable lesson...
...would really be nice to bring [the Cvo Cup] back," Harvard Co-Captain Lanny Thorndike said. "We went up there with a ram-shackled squad [only 25 ruggers made the seven-hour trip] last year, and got booted...
...NOTEBOOK: Harvard outshot the Bulldogs 27-6 in the contest...The Crimson was missing the help of senior midfielder Julie Sasner, who did not make the trip to New Haven due to an ankle injury sustained against Dartmouth...Harvard entered the contest ranked 14th in nation...
...helicopter ride from the White House to Bethesda Naval Hospital has become an all too familiar one for Ronald and Nancy Reagan, but the trip last Friday was the first occasion when Mrs. Reagan traveled as the patient. After a biopsy Saturday morning revealed a tiny malignancy in her left breast, the First Lady immediately underwent a modified radical mastectomy. Once the 50- minute operation was completed, however, the prognosis was good: the cancer did not appear to have spread beyond a small area. Doctors foresee no need for future radiation treatments or chemotherapy, and Mrs. Reagan's chances...