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The discovery horrified Mr. Madoff’s friends, who felt he had been weathering the storm of the last two years and was slowly rebuilding his life.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2010

Most alarming last week was that the Dow, which had been weathering this typhoon rather well, took the biggest hit--falling 821 points, or 8%.

From Time Magazine Archive