Word: breaches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difficult as it was for the market to breach 1,000, many investment analysts last week were cautioning that further rises could prove even more elusive. In January of 1973, the Dow rose to an alltime high of 1,051, shortly thereafter to tumble 500 points into Wall Street's worst bear market since the 1930s. Now, many of the investors who took a beating in the 1970s are selling out, instead of buying, as the market moves back...
...nothing turns the tide of a contest like a penalty shot. Outplayed by the Crimson on the field and the stat sheets, UNH got the game's only big break at 13:09, when three stickwomen were called for deliberate obstruction in the circle, a breach of field hockey scripture which calls for the seven-yard death penalty...
...panel, chaired by Dr. Lewis Thomas, chancellor of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, attacks the quality of these studies. The chromosome report, it noted, involved no controls or reviews by independent scientists before it was released. That breach of standard scientific practice, said the panel, "was a disservice to the citizens most intimately concerned and to the public at large." The panel also found fault with an investigator who hinted at nerve damage among Love Canal residents: "Equivocal or ambiguous observations are likely to do more harm than good...
...fortunate that since my deprogramming experience the breach between my parents and myself has been mended. They have stopped treating me like a child in need of control and have begun to respect me as an adult who has chosen to live life differently," Wilson said...
...largely at an expanding older audience. It now takes about $250,000 to establish a new band, so the major labels, their sights firmly locked on platinum-plus sales figures, are less and less willing to take a chance on adventurous music; the new independents are stepping into the breach...