Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing, it says the notion that small investors, inexperienced in down markets, would bolt at the first sign of trouble is all wrong. It was the pros who fled on Monday: if these guys had been on the Titanic, they would have been fighting the children for lifeboats. The pros were saved by the little guys on Tuesday. Most folks did nothing; others couldn't wait to "buy the dips," just as they had been counseled to do so often. "I have been through this a few times," says Kooshy Afshar, the owner of a small printing company in Beverly...
...robbers, funny-money artists and miscellaneous boodlers after their inevitable job-related mishaps and sending them forth to steal again in novel after novel. His best-known wrongdoer is an amusing burglar named Dortmunder, whose fumble-thumbed approach to grand larceny is that of a tax accountant trying to bolt together a backyard barbecue. The unstated, slyly effective joke of the Dortmunder series (The Hot Rock; What's the Worst That Could Happen?) is that everyone in the hero's extensive social set is staid, sober, contented, BarcaLounger middle-class and thoroughly crooked...
...autumnal colors, Shirley Allen, 51, has been facing down the law for the past month. On Sept. 22, Christian County sheriff's deputies knocked on the door of her two-bedroom farmhouse to serve her with a court order for psychiatric evaluation. She met them with a 12-gauge bolt-action shotgun. They backed off and set up the siege...
...first e-mail program was invented by Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN), which recently merged with GTE. Until two weeks ago, BBN was Harvard's Internet service provider. The University upgraded its link and switched providers...
...Galluzzi, senior vice president of music and talent at MTV. Three tot-pop acts have new albums: Hanson has just come out with Middle of Nowhere (Mercury); pop-grunge band Radish (led by 15-year-old singer Ben Kweller and the object of a bidding war) has issued Restraining Bolt (Mercury); and 16-year-old blues-rock guitar prodigy Jonny Lang has sold more than 150,000 copies of his debut album, Lie To Me (A&M Records), an impressive total for almost any bluesman but even more so for one who is still just a blues...