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...week. Result: a full-fledged panic on Wall Street. By the time the rout ended, the Dow Jones average had plunged 379 points on Thursday and the tech-heavy NASDAQ index stood at its lowest level of the year. Though both markets rebounded on Friday, that did little to dispel the underlying unease that the economy may be a Ford Explorer speeding along on Firestones...
...travel to Kiryat Arba, the largest [Jewish] city in my sector, to speak with new immigrants from Russia. The audience is made up of people who came to our country and found themselves in a reality that is strange to them. To dispel the tension, I open with a discussion about Tolstoy's "War and Peace," which describes the war of the Russian people against the invading Napoleon. Here in our small country we do not have the wide spaces that would allow a retreat from Moscow. The tension is broken, the audience listens to what I say, which...
Rhodes also tried to dispel the myth that "the poor are poor because they're not working hard enough...
Throughout the night, the six homeless men and two homeless women also tried to dispel myths about homelessness...
...Australia," Robert Hughes wrote an erudite and insightful essay about his homeland [THE SUMMER OLYMPICS, Sept. 11]. We visited Sydney last year and came away feeling that Australians, besides being the most friendly and open folks you'll ever meet, share a special affinity with Americans. We want to dispel any notion floated by Hughes that Australians may not be the greatest people on earth, because our experience tells us that they very well may be. NACZ AND CATHE URBANSKI Pennington...