Word: cushions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some safeguards installed in the market after the 1987 crash may have helped cushion last week's fall. In Chicago the Mercantile Exchange twice halted trading in S&P 500 futures contracts, which represent the stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500 index. The automatic cutoffs, or "circuit breakers," slowed the contracts' drop. In 1987 parallel free falls in New York and Chicago, which are linked by computerized trading programs, had aggravated the collapse. But last week some Chicago traders claimed that the stoppages in futures trading restricted the ability of some investors to hedge their losses, forcing them...
With the outcome already decided, the Crimson came out a little flat in the third quarter. The nine-goal cushion allowed Harvard to play a few reserves while experimenting with its defense and man-up situations. MIT fans finally got something to cheer about, as the Engineers cut the deficit to 14-8 heading into the final period...
...peasants down in the Irish village of Ballybeg, the clan in the big house on the hill is the nobility. But at Ballybeg Hall the members of that gilded tribe are keenly aware of a wider world and their piddling place in it. They glamourize the past: a tatty cushion or tarnished candlestick becomes an heirloom by reason of a (probably fictitious) anecdotal link to some bygone celebrity. They embroider the dismal present. They deny the looming future of dissolution and dispersal...
Harvard then showed the skill which has made them the most successful women's fencing team in school history. Perkin defeated Gray, 5-2, to give the Crimson a two-match cushion...
When Harvard plays in the Beanpot Tournament, no lead is safe. No cushion is comfortable. The Crimson held on for dear life last night, slipping past Boston College, 5-4, in the first round...