Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...economic team stood by with folded arms and watched the company fail. While Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan and Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady carefully monitored the situation, the team decided that U.S. financial markets could weather the collapse, in part because junk bonds were already trading near all-time lows. Said an embittered Drexel executive: "What we needed was a pittance, and the Government decided just to let the company go. With a little nudge from the Government, the banks would have put a package together...
...practically anybody," says Street News founder and editor in chief Hutchinson Persons, 33. Persons, a former rock musician, created the tabloid-size publication with borrowed money and donations so that homeless people could make money selling it instead of begging. Since Street News debuted four months ago, says Persons, nearly 1,000 homeless and near homeless men and women have sold more than 1 million copies in New York City. Beginning next month the paper will also be available in Philadelphia, the first of five additional cities where it is targeted for distribution by year...
Today, increasing cloudiness, breezy and mild, a chance of rain late in the day, highs in the mid 50s. Southwest wind 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. Tonight, rain, lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain near 100 percent. Tomorrow, high 50 to 55. Chance of rain 80 percent
Today: sunny, windy and cold, highs in the upper 20s Northwest wind 15 to 30 mph. Tonight: clear and cold, lows in the teens. Tomorrow: mostly sunny, high near...
...VectraCavalier, meanwhile, was the result of a vastly different reorganization. GM Europe entered the 1980s as a patchwork of competing and often uncooperative concerns stretching from the company's new small-car plant near Zaragoza, Spain, to its aging Vauxhall factories in Luton and Ellesmere Port, England. Before the reorganization, GM Europe was very much a West German-led company. The first goal of the restructuring was to broaden its character, so in 1986 the company moved its headquarters to neutral Zurich. There an amazingly lean head-office staff proceeded to coax the diverse GM Europe factions into cooperating with...