Word: dipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...number of diplomas marks a slight dip fromlast year's 1,625 bachelor degrees, Smith said...
...romance novels. He writes the way people feel and think when they are first in love-as if every emotion had the force of God's creation, as if such shivers had never been experienced or expressed before. Madison County was like the affair it describes: a brief skinny-dip in the warm lake of nostalgia...
Such realizations punctured some of the early forecasts of a silver lining in Kobe's tragedy. Even as heavily hit manufacturers like Kobe Steel had to absorb further jolts on the stock market, construction-industry issues were hot prospects on the Tokyo exchange. After the Nikkei index's steep dip early last week, bidding on these shares helped the exchange recover 318 points by the close of trading on Friday. But the boomlet of hope in the ashes was not enough to convince more sober heads...
...Chechnya is far worse than a dip in the Russian road to democracy, and the Administration is well aware of it. The war is a colossal blunder. The Russians managed to lurch out of two years of dithering, during which they ignored the republic's secession, into a sudden overreaction and a total military and political disaster...
...irony of the peso's misfortune is that it happened to a country that up until a year ago gave all the signs of being on a durable winning streak. Mexico has steadily climbed out of the debris of the debt crisis of the early 1980s, when a dip in the price of oil, its most valuable export, left the nation unable to pay its bills. For years afterward Mexico was a dirty word to foreign investors, who left it to starve for development capital. Rebuilding credibility required a long stretch of austerity and the sale of inefficient state operations...