Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...history. But some Chicagoans would rather forget the legendary mobster. When Mark Levell, 29, a computer technician and amateur historian, proposed to the U.S. Interior Department that it designate as a historic site the red brick house on Chicago's South Side where Scarface lived during his 1920s crime wave, he sparked a heated reaction...
...cause. A 21-year-old Californian identified himself as "Whiteman." At a press conference he defined the skinhead philosophy as "retaliation for all the years of being beaten down by other races." He went on to predict that "a new generation has to come. The skins are the next wave...
...every mall or freely lavish six-figure salaries on young talent. Gone are many of the yachts and the black-tie dinners -- along with more than 8% of the 260,000 employees who worked in the U.S. securities industry before the collapse. And despite the cost cutting, a fresh wave of gloom rolled through investment houses last week. Even as the Dow Jones industrial average surged 72.40 points to a post-crash high of 2409.46, blue- chip firms announced setbacks that ranged from layoffs to plunging profits. Says Perrin Long, who follows the securities industry for Lipper Analytical Services...
...even more S & Ls in jeopardy by undermining their outstanding real estate loans. Already the impending sales have frightened real estate investors and kept a damper on prices, especially in the hard-hit Southwest. The federal holdings, says Dallas S & L adviser Richard Kneipper, are like a "tidal wave about to crush us all and drown everybody...
...wave of writing on the Chinese experience...