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- Meltdown
- an incidence of substantial losses on the stock market. Black Monday (October 19, 1987) was described as Meltdown Monday in the press the following day.
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- Mortgage woes keep piling up
- NEW YORK -- Fallout from the meltdown in the subprime mortgage industry continued to wreak havoc on Wall Street Wednesday, as three big financial institutions revealed new financial and legal problems, and shares of the USA's leading banks and brokerage firms sank. Morgan Stanley announced new...
- Research articles 2007-11-08
- Anatomy of a meltdown
- The subprime meltdown spilled over into other financial markets over the summer. Investors fled the private-label residential mortgage-backed securities market, shutting it down in early August. Facing margin calls, falling asset values, no buyers for non-agency bonds and no buyers for mortgages originated for the private-label market, mortgage companies large...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- Risky-mortgage meltdown was predictable, preventable
- It's called "payment shock." A typical homebuyer with slightly blemished credit starts off with a $200,000 mortgage, a 7% interest rate and an initial monthly payment of $1,531. Everything's fine for two years until that low "teaser" rate expires and jumps to 11.5%, adding a whopping $625 to the monthly...
- Research articles 2007-08-10
- Golf: No walk down nightmare lane for Van de Velde
- CARNOUSTIE, Scotland AFP — Paul Lawrie won the British Open the last time it was played at Carnoustie, but the 1999 tournament will for ever be known as the Open Jean Van de Velde lost. Standing on the last tee on Sunday with a three-shot lead, the unheralded Frenchman...
- Research articles 2007-07-12
- Critic's corner
- It's 9 ET/PT on the networks. Pick your poison: ABC's over-the-top plastic surgery series, Extreme Makeover, returns for an abbreviated three-week summer run tonight. In the premiere episode, a legally...
- Research articles 2007-07-02
- Fed up farmers plan their exit
- SIR; Many people, including chief executives running dairy companies and co-ops, have been critical of the NFU for publicly stating over the past six months that the dairy industry in this country is in meltdown. "Where is the evidence?" they ask. The NFU understands the current position better. Evidence...
- Research articles 2007-04-07
- The fashion
- Fashion was as much a part of The OC as a Ryan fistfight or a Marissa meltdown. "The show impacted fashion in a good way," says Seventeen fashion director Gina Kelly. "Sex and the City was going off the air at the time, and girls always...
- Research articles 2007-02-21
- Houston, we have a meltdown
- Details are still emerging in "The Case of the Pampered Astronaut," but the general arc of the story has caught the public's imagination. It's a familiar arc: One person, thought to be above it all, comes plummeting to earth, brought down by that old bugaboo of the human brain --...
- Research articles 2007-02-08
- Top Download-to-Own.(Table)(Brief article)
- By Staff Week ended December 10, 2006 Movielink ------------------------------------------- Rank Title (Label/Distributor, SRP) 1 ...
- Research articles 2006-12-18
- Heat Index; weekly rating (0-10) of sizzle & fizzle.(MediaWorks)(Brief article)
- 9 TMZ.com Web site sees page views hit 4 million last Monday thanks to Mel's meltdown. The Time Warner-owned celebrity website grabs as many headlines as Mr. Gibson. But how does Paris Hilton feel about Jews? 5 Jared Kushner 25-year-old law student buys snarky New...
- Research articles 2006-08-07
- Newsmakers | The Brinkley breakup: An early warning?
- The Christie Brinkley-Peter Cook meltdown just keeps getting more creepily prurient. Now another woman, 29-year-old singer Samantha Cole, has come forward to claim that Cook, 47, seduced her when she was 19. Speaking to the New York Post, Cole said Cook proposed marriage to her in '96 - just one...
- Research articles 2006-07-20
- Ogilvy has point to prove at British Open
- HOYLAKE, England AFP — Geoff Ogilvy is out to prove a point at this week's British Open - that his upset win in last month's US Open was no fluke. The 29-year-old Australian was the prime beneficiary of an astounding double meltdown by Phil Mickelson and Colin Montgomerie on...
- Research articles 2006-07-18
- Build skyscrapers, invite ruins.
- Byline: Amit Bhandari and Muthukumar K Jun. 8--The earliest record of a skyscraper was the mythical 'Tower of Babel'. What happened thereafter is well documented. Humanity's future experiences with tall structures haven't been particularly pleasant. The construction of world's tallest buildings...
- Research articles 2006-06-08
- Fox's ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN Promo Campaign among the Studio's Biggest
- LOS ANGELES -- Twentieth Century Fox has announced that its global promotional campaign for the studio's "tentpole" animated feature film ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN, to be released nationwide March 31, is among Fox's most far-reaching and ambitious ever. Fox has garnered over $100 million in promotional support, including an...
- Research articles 2006-03-18
- Lights! Camera! Action! ... and frozen foods!(MORE COOL STUFF)
- The frozen food industry has "gone Hollywood." The National Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Association NFRA, Harrisburg, Penn., has teamed up Twentieth Century Fox to promote the film, "ice Age 2 The Meltdown," in conjunction with National Frozen Food Month in March, and Ruiz Foods, Dinuba, Calif.,...
- Research articles 2005-11-01
- Conventional Wisdom
- After all the hoopla, Roberts confirmation gets lost in GOP meltdown. Now for a bloodier fight: filling O'Connor's heels. CW DeLay - Calls indictment "partisan politics," a subject with which he has some ...
- Research articles 2005-10-10
- Goosen meltdown opens the door for US Open rivals
- PINEHURST, United States AFP — A final-round meltdown by defending champion Retief Goosen turned the outcome of the 105th US Open into a lottery. The 36-year-old South African began the day with a three-shot lead and poised to win his third US Open title in only five years. ...
- Research articles 2005-06-19
- Courageous Campbell defies Tiger attack to win US Open
- PINEHURST, United States AFP — A battling Michael Campbell fought off a charging Tiger Woods to win the 105th US Open. The 36-year-old Kiwi finished one-under 69 for the day and level par 280 for the championship to beat Woods by two strokes. "I can't believe I'm holding...
- Research articles 2005-06-19
- Campbell holds off Tiger to take US Open
- PINEHURST, United States AFP — New Zealander Michael Campbell held off a charging Tiger Woods to win the 105th US Open. The 36-year-old Kiwi finished level par 70 for the day and level par 280 for the championship to beat Woods by two strokes. It was a stunning...
- Research articles 2005-06-19
- Lawsuit Seeks Cleanup of Radioactive Land Near Los Angeles
- LOS ANGELES, Californiaa ENS — Two conservation groups and the City of Los Angeles are suing the Bush administration, alleging it broke longstanding commitments to clean up a radioactively contaminated nuclear facility in Southern California. The Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a federal reactor testing site near Los Angeles, housed...
- Research articles 2004-10-28
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