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...percentage gain, jumping 25.98 points, or about 7 percent, to close at 385.80. Rallies on Saturday (yes, this is a market that trades on Saturday) and Monday more than undid Friday's plunge, when the Composite sank 7 percent to a 10-year low. What caused the turnaround? The catalyst seems to have been a series of statements over the weekend by South Korean leaders, who vowed to "fully implement the agreement reached with the IMF" - even as students marched in Seoul to protest the "humiliating" bailout...
...remaining carbon monoxide is Preferentially Oxidized (burnt) over a catalyst to reduce its concentration to less than...
...Gerometta is a catalyst player," Walsh said...
...storm, which literally freezes the world around the Hoods and the Carvers, serves as a kind of natural catalyst which brings all of their disappointments and repressed feelings to the surface, or at least forces them to break through their stiff behavioral code and emote. The Ice Storm, based on Rick Moody's 1994 novel, is a complex and, almost inevitably, flawed work of art, but one can't help being affected by nearly everything that transpires...
...DuBois Institute is a catalyst for research and interest in Afro-Americana," said Richardson, who also joined Harvard's faculty this fall as a visiting professor of Afro-American studies. "It's difficult to think of a better department in this field in the country...