Word: dampener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...popular and may have been responsible for a big part of last Friday's plunge. The Brady report suggested that such volatility might be curbed if the 12% margin needed for buying a stock-index future were brought more into line with the 50% required for stocks. That might dampen speculation at the Chicago Merc. Critics of this idea, however, point out that the big institutions that play the index arbitrage game generally pay cash for their contracts...
Even October's stock-market crash and the cloudy economic outlook have so far failed to dampen the industry's robust bookings, which reached $5 billion in 1987. One reason is that travelers no longer view cruises as an extravagant expense. Because many passenger lines are trying to lure more first-time, middle-class customers, prices have moderated in comparison with other types of vacations. Besides the traditional luxury cruises that cost a daunting $400 to $600 a day, many lines offer so-called contemporary excursions that run about $140 to $220 (including meals and activities...
Throughout the week Israeli officials attempted to find ways to dampen tempers. In the West Bank, they closed Hebron University, a hot spot of Islamic fundamentalist activity, and several other colleges. A two-day shutdown of nearly 900 Arab schools in the occupied territories was extended through this week. The Jerusalem daily newspaper Al Quds, which circulates widely in Gaza and the West Bank, was banned there for one month after it published a picture of an Israeli soldier carrying a tear-gas launcher and fleeing from a crowd of demonstrators in Gaza. Two refugee camps, Jabalia...
Those clouds, though, could not dampen the 1987 harvest. Despite all the idle farmland, wheat production was up 1% from last year's sizable crop, to 2.1 billion bu., while the soybean crop also rose 1%, to 2 billion bu. Good weather resulted in especially strong yields in Iowa, which vaulted past Illinois to become the top producer of corn and soybeans...
...decision to prolong the battle will certainly cast a harsh spotlight on the often crass lobbying and campaign practices used against him. But it will not dampen the opposition to him -- or the essentially political nature of the decision the Senate will make. While Bork may be justified in charging he has been treated unfairly, his trove of controversial opinions and statements aroused deep concerns about the type of Justice he would be. With a divided court hanging in the balance, it was almost inevitable that the resulting political passions would play a large part in the confirmation process...