Word: auge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...credit to fall. That plus the good news about oil caused bond prices to surge and the stock market to stampede. The Dow jumped nearly 20 points in half an hour, and its gain of 29.49 for the day was the biggest since a rise of 36 on Aug. 3. On Friday trading was again heavy, and the Dow gained a half-point to finish at 1225.93, up 35 for the week...
...three-page letter was buried deep in the Aug. 7, 1975, issue of the journal Nature. It described a method of producing huge quantities of very pure, very precise antibodies, the disease-fighting guided missiles of the immune system. The technique, said Authors César Milstein and Georges Köhler of the Medical Research Council Laboratory in Cambridge, England, "could be valuable for medical and industrial use," although Milstein worried about such conjecture being "immodest...
...more than 400 of days, the Philippines had been on edge, waiting for what could be a major turning point in its political history. The Agrava board, a fact-finding body set up by President Ferdinand Marcos to investigate the Aug. 21, 1983, assassination of Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino within moments of his return from exile, had promised to publish the results of its hearings by the anniversary of the murder. But that day passed, and so did that week. Another week went by, then a month. Questions snowballed. Tensions mounted. A steady trickle of leaks- some careless, some calculated...
...conspiracy. When he took the witness stand in April, Ver admitted under questioning by General Counsel Narvasa that the intelligence community was kept regularly informed of Aquino's activities in the U.S. Did that mean, Narvasa asked, that as soon as Aquino left his home in Boston on Aug. 13 en route for the Philippines, the authorities made every effort to keep track of his movements? No, said the general. But what of the cables from Philippine officials abroad describing Aquino's stops in Singapore and Taipei? Those, said Ver, were received by the intelligence authorities but were...
...Force has announced the cause of the Aug. 29 crash: human error. As the plane's movable wings were swung forward for a low-altitude test, Benefield apparently forgot to switch on a mechanism that shifts fuel among various tanks. The B-lA's center of gravity thus stayed toward the tail, causing the bomber to rear up at a 70° angle, stall and tumble earthward...