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...quiet, at first, for 26-year-old Joseph Schmuckler, program trader for Kidder Peabody. The blinking number on his computer screen, which will signal him when it is time to unleash his electronic firepower, is advising him to wait. But suddenly the stock market begins to move downward, and the telltale digit on Schmuckler's screen starts changing like a countdown at Cape Canaveral. The trader and his two assistants erupt in a frenzy of shouted telephone conversations as they advise colleagues in New York City and Chicago to get ready for a blast of trading orders. "Strap on your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strap on Your Seat Belts! | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

Jewett actually lucked out when you think of it. There were many times this year when anti-apartheid protesters might have gone so far as to provoke the University to unleash its infamous CRR. Luckily for Jewett and the protesters, this proved unnecessary...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: It's Been a Long Year, Fred | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...great fear in Europe was that the attack would trigger a cycle of new vengeful terrorist assaults followed by more U.S. reprisals. Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi expressed the concerns of European governments and public opinion alike: the U.S. action, he said, was likely to unleash "explosions of fanaticism and of criminal and suicide missions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitting the Source U.S. Bombers Strike At | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

Bowsher had been blocked, knocked and toppled--and had still managed to unleash a blast into the upper reaches of the net from just outside...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Number One UMass Runs Over Booters | 10/23/1985 | See Source »

First Harvard, then Adelphi, then Harvard again would hold the ball in one end and unleash a couple of shots before trekking downfield to take up defense...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Adelphi Knocks Off Harvard, 1-0, in OT | 10/1/1985 | See Source »

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