Word: slides
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hard to understand why most observers expect Wall Street to slide fast and far during trading Monday. It opened with an opening dive - its first dip below the 7,000 point bar in more than a decade. And why would the Dow resist the mega-tanking that bourses elsewhere experienced today, amid a flurry of dismal financial and economic news from virtually every corner of the globe...
...Read "How to Escape Down an Airplane Slide...
...quarter, Singapore's fell 3.7% and Hong Kong's dipped 2.5%. Eric Fishwick, head of economic research at brokerage CLSA in Hong Kong, predicts these dismal numbers will persist. He sees Singapore's GDP contracting 10% this year, while South Korea's will decline 7%, Hong Kong's will slide 5% and Taiwan's will drop, stunningly, by double digits. "We've never seen an external shock in Asia like this," says Fishwick...
...first ferry boat pulled its bow up to the tip of the wing, and the first mate lowered the Jacob's ladder down to us. We got a couple people up the ladder to safety, but the current was strong pushing the stern of the boat into the inflatable slide and we were afraid it would puncture it; there must have been 25 passengers in it by now. Only two or three were able to board the first ferry before it moved away...
...reinforcements can achieve. "I am absolutely convinced that you cannot solve the problem of Afghanistan, the Taliban, the spread of extremism in that region solely through military means," he told an interviewer on Tuesday. But more troops are needed simply to arrest and begin to reverse a perilous slide in NATO's fortunes in Afghanistan. (See "Hidden Afghanistan...