Word: break
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second game, Kasparov explained he wanted to create a new opening that the computer wouldn't be able to break down...
...crash. But by last August some Wall Streeters were clearly worried. Noted Donald Stone, a floor specialist for Lasker, Stone & Stern: "I've been on the trading floor for 39 years, and I've never seen the market go up so fast for so long without a major break." Yet the bulls kept on running. Just last Monday the market closed at a historic peak of 2791.41, its fifth record high in as many sessions...
Meanwhile, the Government's chief early-warning gauge of inflation indicated last week that the U.S. economy may be headed for trouble. The Labor Department said its Producer Price Index rose 0.9% in September, or about 10% on an annual basis, to break a three-month string of declining wholesale prices. Earlier in the week, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan suggested that the Fed remains wary of inflation and therefore would be averse to easing interest rates. That was not what Wall Street wanted to hear...
...sake of most Hungarians. "This is just a new label on an old bottle," complains Gyorgy Ruttner, an opposition leader who heads the Social Democratic Party. Aware that the bottle's contents might seem familiar and sour, the more radical reformers among the Communists wanted an even sharper break with the past, including expulsion of Old Guard hard-liners. In the end, moderates led by Rezso Nyers, 66, who was elected party president, stitched together a compromise that held the party together but may jeopardize its chances in the next elections...
...until 10:30 at night," he says. "So I would get into bed and pull the quilt over my head so I wouldn't offend the neighbors." Missing a single day's practice, says Woody, makes him feel "absolutely consumed with guilt. You know, it's like when people break their diet or something...