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Finally, in late fiscal 1993, foreign stockprices resumed their strong climb. For the year,the benchmark Morgan Stanley EAFE-Free Index,which measures foreign equity performance,returned 18.25 percent, nearly seven points higherthan the Standard & Poor's 500 index of domesticstocks...
...those who support the Oslo agreement, even if halfheartedly, the new Declaration of Principles provides the only ladder available to climb out of a status quo both sides have been finding more and more intolerable. The plan comes in two parts: first, a framework for interim Palestinian self-rule on the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip; and second, the agreement, still being negotiated, on mutual recognition and an end to the warfare between Israel and the P.L.O...
...tropical rain forest, trying to decide whether to explore the ruined Maya temple in the distance or climb into the forest canopy overhead, where you might see some monkeys. Suddenly there's a yellow-brown jaguar sitting on the branch above you, flicking his tail from side to side, his yellow eyes fixed on yours. Maybe climbing a tree isn't such a good idea after all. You don't think jaguars eat people, but rather than find out, you head off across the forest floor, turning this way and that, until you manage to get yourself hopelessly lost...
...confidence to put their money in longer-term investments. On Wall Street outspoken bulls insist that the stock market still has plenty of room to grow. Elaine Garzarelli, an investment strategist for Lehman Bros., looks for the Dow to hit 4000 by the end of the year and climb to 4600 in 1994. "My feeling is that any correction would be minor," Garzarelli says. "Interest rates would have to go up to offer an alternative to money going into stocks...
...here!" he shouted hoarsely. His liberators dug through 6 in. of dirt, removed three wooden planks and four cinder blocks, pushed away a heavy metal plate and helped him climb out of his hellhole. He embraced them and then, in a gravelly voice that crackled with gratitude and relief, he asked a cop for a smoke...