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• [_ARGM-TMP Yesterday] , [_ARGM-TMP even before the resignations were announced *-1] , [_ARG1 the index] [_rel dove] [_ARG2-EXT 32.5 points] [_ARGM-PNC *-2 to close at 2129.4] .
• [_ARG1 Earnings before interest and tax from brewing] [_rel dived] [_ARG2-EXT 50 %] to [_ARG4-to A$ 123.8 million *U*] from [_ARG3-from A$ 247.3 million *U*] .
• On a day 0 some United Airlines employees wanted Mr. Wolf fired *-2 and takeover stock speculators wanted his scalp *T*-1 , Messrs. Wolf and Pope saw their prospective personal fortunes continue *-3 to plummet *PPA*-5 as [_ARG1 shares of UAL , United 's parent company ,] [_rel dived] [_ARG2-EXT $ 24.875 *U*] [_ARGM-LOC on the Big Board] [_ARGM-PNC *-4 to close at $ 198 *U*] .
• He 's an ex-hurler who *T*-1 's one of the leading gurus of the fashionable delivery , which *T*-2 looks like a fastball until [_ARG1 it] [_rel dives] [_ARGM-DIR beneath the lunging bat] .
• Individual investors , investment firms and arbitragers who *T*-1 speculate in the stocks of takeover candidates can suffer liquidity and payment problems [_ARGM-TMP when] [_ARG1 stocks] [_rel dive] *T*-2 ; those investors often borrow heavily *-3 to buy their holdings and use the stocks as collateral for loans .
• Nonetheless , [_ARG1 the Nasdaq Composite Index] suffered its biggest point decline of the year and its sixth worst ever , *-1 [_rel diving] [_ARG2-EXT 14.90 , or 3 % ,] to [_ARG4-to 467.29] .
• Of course , the health of the economy will be threatened *-1 if [_ARG1 the market] continues *-2 to [_rel dive] this week .