Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...climax came on Thursday, when the Bache Group, which owns one of the nation's largest brokerage houses and is in turn 5.6% owned by the Hunt family, announced that it had issued a $100 million margin call on the Hunts and that they could not, or would not, put up this additional cash to protect their position. Wild rumors flew that Bache was about to go under. Stock and commodity prices went into a nosedive. Bache asked the Government's Commodity Futures Trading Commission to close to close the silver market. The commission refused. "Despite the seriousness...
Mugabe's victory was the climax of 20 years of struggle in the nationalist movement. The son of a poor laborer, he was born in the village of Kutama, just west of Salisbury, and educated in Roman Catholic mission schools. After earning degrees from two South African universities, he began his career as a schoolteacher, but ultimately immersed himself in Rhodesian nationalist politics during the 1960s. He was repeatedly arrested for his political activities and spent, all told, more than a decade in jail; as a prisoner, he completed three more university degrees by correspondence...
...then, for 45 minutes the great religious homages of the masters, "And the Glory of the Lord shall be revealed," "And he shall purify," "I know thay my redeemer liveth on the earth," building to the Alleluia chorus, and the crowd of 600 on its feet for the climax "And glory will reign forever and ever...
This search seemed headed for yet another climax last weekend as a special five-man United Nations commission arrived in Tehran to hear the grievances of Iran's new rulers against the regime of the deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Arranging this mission took more than a week of feverish diplomatic activity, as officials at times worked round the clock. Their efforts were punctuated with starts and stops, expected deals that failed to materialize, and hints of progress that suddenly dissolved...
...ordinary. He hops on the back of a red pickup truck and moves to a small podium. "I'm George Bush" he says, "and I'd like your support." In a slow northeastern twang, he talks of issues and Iowa, occasionally pounding the podium and moving to the climax of his speech. "I'm optimistic about this country," he says. "I know we can turn things around." John Connally can go back to the ranch, Howard Baker and Bob Dole can go back to the Senate, Philip Crane and John Anderson can go back to the House and Ronald Reagan...