Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jones industrial average has zoomed more than 500 points this year, 200 just since the beginning of July. "I've been on this trading floor for 39 years, and I've never seen a market go up so fast for so long without a major break," said Donald Stone, a specialist in consumer stocks on the New York Stock Exchange...
...coffers in July alone. NOW President Molly Yard vows to make every politician confront the question "Are you for the right of a woman to control her reproductive life?" Says political analyst William Schneider: "In abortion the women's movement has an issue that could enable them to break into the mainstream...
...sentiment was laudable, but its source was a surprise. There, arguing for the nomination of a black attorney to the Federal Government's top civil rights position, sat South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond, who had once declared, "There's not enough troops in the Army to break down segregation and admit the Negro into our homes, our eating places, our swimming pools and our theaters." His current rationale: "It seems to me that we ought to give this black man a chance. Years ago, minorities didn't have a chance...
...rescue is the crew of a futuristic underwater oil-drilling rig working nearby. The rig's designer (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), who is the estranged wife of its master (Ed Harris), drops down to help and bicker. So does a Navy diving team whose leader (Michael Biehn) suffers a psychotic break caused by the great depths. He becomes particularly obstreperous after he recovers a warhead from the wreck...
...Mexican accord is the first concrete result of U.S. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady's four-month campaign to break the impasse on Third World debt by persuading commercial banks to accept some cuts in the principal or interest rates of their loans. Brady's predecessor, James Baker, whose 1985 debt plan provided for no such relief, had failed to ease the problem. With the Mexican accord in hand, Brady hopes that similar agreements between the banks and other developing countries may soon be worked...