Word: dipped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clearly warped or blurred or badly starved for the blue plate special of the day. Because Catatonia is not brilliant in any way; it does not take much generosity to listen them out, but they don't distinguish themselves particularly from all those other groups in the lucky dip bin of 'pretty good' pop groups out there...
Still, the game remains remarkably popular. Attendance rebounded quickly after a dip following the strike, and the average attendance now is far higher than it ever was, even in the romanticized '50s. Despite competition for American athletes, the talent pool is now far deeper than ever before. Players from the Caribbean, South America and Japan play in the majors, raising the level of play and expanding the sport's fan base...
...dips strategy, the only one you needed to know for this decade, finally failed last week. Investors, including many pros like me, had grown used to taking advantage of every substantial decline in their favorite stocks, but now find themselves deluged with more shares than they can carry in a truck. Why didn't the dip turn back up this time? It certainly had nothing to do with the U.S. Every new economic indicator, from employment to wages, came in stronger than expected last week. But we're now in a market where losses in Russia get translated into margin...
...response to the financial and political turmoil in Russia--a vast country that still bristles with 7,000 strategic nuclear warheads but whose economy scarcely rivals that of the Netherlands and accounts for less than 1% of U.S. exports. Investors treated Monday's market action as another of those "dips" in which they had been taught to buy stocks on the cheap. Heck, it wasn't even as big as the one-day dip last Oct. 27, and the market had shrugged that one off within six weeks before powering to new highs and greater glory...
...your child is accepted at Princeton, you're doubly lucky. Not only is it an elite university, but in January, Princeton announced it would begin to dip into its endowment (the nation's fourth richest, valued at nearly $5 billion) specifically to help students from middle-income families offset more of its $33,040 annual price tag. Since then, Yale, Stanford and M.I.T. have announced similar plans...