Word: auge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sunday, Aug. 16, 5 a.m. The faithful arrived on the shores of the Atlantic. At Sagaponack Beach on Long Island, N.Y., they spread their blankets, then sat down, crossed their legs, closed their eyes, lifted palms upward and waited intently for the sunrise. With the first blush of light across the horizon, the throng unleashed a high-velocity "oommm" that rivaled a swarm of yellow jackets...
...inventive head of Jose Arguelles, an erstwhile art historian who is a dedicated publicist for his book The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology (Bear Publishing; Santa Fe). To anyone who would listen, Arguelles argued that his studies of ancient Mayan calendars showed that the "materialistic" world would end on Aug. 16 -- when three planets lined up with the new moon -- unless 144,000 true believers gathered in various "sacred sites" around the world and "resonated" sufficiently to bring on a new age of peace and harmony...
...cumulative effect of all those bang- bang weeks. At Friday's close the Dow Jones industrials had zoomed up more than 1900 points over five years; prices of the 30 stocks in the average had multiplied roughly 3 1/2 times from the Dow's low of 776.92. on Aug...
Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, confirming a disclosure Wednesday by Contra official Alfredo Cesar, said Reagan will meet with the entire six-member directorate of the Nicaraguan opposition on Aug...
...investigators from the Justice Department, the U.S. Postal Service and the Internal Revenue Service pored over mountains of the ministry's financial records at its headquarters in Fort Mill, S.C. The officials were readying material for a federal grand jury hearing, scheduled to begin in Charlotte, N.C., on Aug. 17. The focus, according to sources close to the investigation: the possibility of criminal tax fraud, wire fraud and mail fraud by Jim Bakker and other PTL leaders who have left the ministry since Falwell took over...