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...York Stock Exchange re-opened Monday morning after its longest pause since the Great Depression. Stocks plummeted, closing down 684 points as investors struggled to regain their footing in a shaky marketplace...
Until the bell actually rang, the reopening of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday - after its longest blackout since the "bank holidays" of the Depression - was hailed by every official personage, from President George W. Bush to New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to NYSE chief Richard Grasso, as a victory for the capitalists over the terrorists...
...documentary on music and dance, he was detained by the Chinese government and held incommunicado. No official announcement of his status was made until December 1996, when state radio reported that a closed court had found him guilty and handed down a sentence of 18 years, one of the longest ever given to a Tibetan political prisoner. Says a Tibetan academic living in Beijing: "[The Chinese] assume that being a Fulbright means you're working...
...comings and goings can ball up huge swaths of the nation's airspace - was way down in Florida and wouldn't be cruising back into Andrews Air Force Base until noon, comfortably after the morning rush hour had let up. FAA Administrator Jane Garvey, who is the agency's longest serving chief, had already begun a day heavy with meetings. This, the FAA, the flyboys and radar jocks thought, would be an easy...
...economy could lobby Washington, what would it ask for? Quite possibly the bit of economic stimulus that's the longest shot in a field of them, what even the cantankerous Paul O'Neill shut his mouth about long ago: corporate tax cuts...