European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes monday november 9,1987 column plunging into panic with Stock talk by vv1l1 Jam Safire on Black monday crash was the word most frequently used Al first to describe the sos Point drop in the Dow junes Industrial average that occurred oct. 19, 1987, a Day that Many investors think will live i infirmity. Donald t. Mccan former Treasury Secretary called a Day Black and Blue  a in play on the battered image or Black and Blue with the traditional bad news sense of Black whatever Day an the Don a want logo Back to work sense of Blue Mon  however some considered crash evocative of inc crash of 29" to be alarmist. As Kipling never said if you can keen your head a lion Ait about you arc losing theirs perhaps you Don t understand the Gravity of the  among politicians sen. Paul Simon called it plunge Jesse Jackson broadened it to a in so a gov Mike Dukakis preferred he Milder slide and Congress Man Jack Kemp used the mild Sci drop. White House aide used panic stressing the unfounded and irrational nature of the cause of the Sharp downward move of investor Confidence although president Reagan in his subsequent news conference preferred the up Bezel correction. In the news business the new York times used both plunge and drop stocks plunge sos Points a drop of 22.6%" later in the week sensitive to the leanness of plunge the times gave readers a lesion in synonymy. Stocks fall but Avert  the associated press alternated Between plunge and decline at the Washington Post drop was the key verb with plunge in the subhead although in financial columnist Hobart Rowan chose the Mare vivid collapse to a column immediately after the event 1 used the less formal nosedive. An editorial writer in the Washington Post preferred Nasty fall but the times editorialist observed that words like crash did not suffice it was people said More like a  meltdown offering the alliterative Jna Rief melt Down showed liens or becoming the noun of Choice Haynes Johnson a Washington Post columnist was even More alliterative with tire frantic fearful foils of Black monday. Whether today we a financial meltdown or not Laid John j. Phelan jr., unflappable chairman of the new York Stock Exchange apparently responding to the use of the  in a question "1 would t want lobe around Tor one worse than  Usa today head lined this As Market meltdown grasping finnly Al the aforementioned alliterative possibilities. The most recent sense of the term is ultimate nuclear reactor Accident although the word meltdown originated in the ice Cream Industry in the 1930s, according to the Vanilla King Norman Beck of Beverly Hills Lei i hit the thesaurus key on the a write word processing program and see what is left to denote a sudden fall Tumble is still available though that has a jocular qualify and setback and downturn Are far Loo mild. Slump does not have the requisite suddenness i decline for this financial terminology since it is often used As a synonym for mild  Here s a Good verb plummet from the latin for the heavy Metal we Call Lead which sink taster than most elements. This thesaurus docs not have shakeout a Market term Tail ing Between the harsh crash and the More Neutral drop. Fall Dou not have the needed suddenness or Quality of inc unexpected implicit in crash or even drop he do not underestimate this Short verb it recalls the fallow the rebellious Angel Lucifer and Post Mort Ems on the Market Are sure to be headlined after inc  hence loathed melancholy rebound has its family bound crack Snapback comeback recovery. Simon did t by the presidential Campaign hotline is a computerized information service Pui out by the american polities not Wari xxx Rovi los diag its Jiff in other Day when i came across a memory jogging Sla Lemen by democratic presidential candidate Paul Simon of Illinois. Download is comp Olerese Tor receive from a larger compel or into a smaller unit the opposite or upload Send from a smaller to a larger computer both locutions of of offload an 18 so South Africa expression meaning unload and the even earlier overload a 1553 compound senator Simon had previously endeared himself to me by announcing Early in the Campaign i m not anew anything thereby putting Down both neoconservatives and no liberals actually Simon is a Post mod Ern Neon Biml. Which Means old fashioned new dealer. He told a san Antonio audience on fiscal policy i am  that triggered a synapse in my head attached to dynamic conservatism a Semi oxymoron favored by president Eisenhower who also fiddled around with moderate Progress visa Adlai Stevenson of Illinois preparing to run against the unbeatable Ike for the second time had this to say i am not sure what dynamic moderation or Moder ate dynamism Means. 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