Word: dispell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rumors circulated that the value of Argentina's national currency might be halved again. Shell-shocked citizens waited for Erman, the third Economy Minister since President Carlos Saul Menem took office last July, to announce yet another rescue plan, the fourth in Menem's tenure. The challenge: to dispel the worst outbreak of hyperinflation in Argentina since food riots broke out last...
Last week British, Spanish and French spill experts were on hand to help, but little could be done. Although 40% of the Iranian light crude had evaporated, the remainder was harder to dispel. Chemical dispersants, sprayed in limited quantities early in the week to break down the crude and make it sink, were effective for only a few days, until the oil emulsified, or mixed and bonded with seawater. Closer to shore, crews floated booms to protect oyster beds against the oil patch, which at one point came to within twelve miles...
...afterword, Wing can dispel any illusions we might have had that the story was a novel--for in reality, she writes, it was her life--and she can once again emphasize the tenuous connections between author and subject and the multiplicities of "I" when she says: "My tale has no end. Like Chinese boxes within boxes, like Russian dolls within dolls, like an onion peeling back its skin, we go on revealing our hearts in the hope that they may never stop beating...