Word: droppingly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...champagne corks never popped. Instead investors watched in distress as the Tokyo stock market suffered one of its biggest declines ever. Falling in four of the five daily sessions last week, the 225-issue Nikkei index plummeted more than 2,500 points, or nearly 7%. Approximately half of the drop occurred on Wednesday alone. The Nikkei closed at 35,890.97, the lowest level since last October...
Among Cuba's young as well as its old, the greatest source of dissatisfaction is the exhausted economy. The nation's coffers have been devastated by the drop-off in world petroleum prices since the mid-1980s; Cuba generated much of its foreign exchange by reselling, at top prices, cut-rate oil supplied by the Soviet Union. Sugar, Cuba's main export, has also been a loser on international markets. Ever since Havana in 1986 suspended payments on its foreign debt, which now stands at $7 billion, most industrialized countries have refused to extend new credits. With only $87 million...
...with sources is par for the gossip course, and Smith has her own techniques. "My effort is to turn everybody I know into a legman for me," she says. Reporters at newspapers, magazines and the three networks, she claims, often leak snippets to her. Agents of all kinds drop nuggets, as do friends, parties and openings. Public relations people are "mostly so inept that you should just forget it totally." Though, in truth, Liz has been known to run their press releases verbatim, as well as to promote shamelessly her favorite restaurants, charities and plays...
...double hook for bombs was abandoned by the mission planners, who feared, if one malfunctioned, the armed bomb might dangle in the rack like hell on a tether. You remember the day 44 years ago on a college campus when the news came of the Enola Gay's successful drop and the public dawning of the nuclear age, how you sat up most of the summer night talking and wondering...
...Crimson had just fallen to Clarkson, 6-2, in Potsdam, N.Y., to drop into sixth place in the ECAC. To make matters worse, the P.A. announcer had just informed the Walker Arena crowd that Cornell was beating RPI, 5-4, with three minutes left to play...