Word: diving
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hard to understand why most observers expect Wall Street to slide fast and far during trading Monday. It opened with an opening dive - its first dip below the 7,000 point bar in more than a decade. And why would the Dow resist the mega-tanking that bourses elsewhere experienced today, amid a flurry of dismal financial and economic news from virtually every corner of the globe...
...just around the corner. A new power-sharing agreement between the opposition and President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF Party could see progress on restarting Zimbabwe's moribund economy. And it's rumored that Gono's job may be on the chopping block. Foreign investors are eager to dive back into the fray, sensing major opportunities in an economy that will have to be rebuilt almost from scratch. One client of African Banking Corp. is ready to multiply its investments by a factor of 20 once the dire political situation stabilizes. Others remain cautious. "When we see a solid...
...disturbing subculture of hyper-competitiveness that destroys the very foundation of the liberal-arts education Harvard claims to offer. And the devastating consequences of rejection can be damaging to one’s mental health—a concern not often realized by the eager droves of applicants who dive into the process without considering the real impact of the application process on their personal lives...
...organizations. Educational inequity is a deep and serious problem, and in the long term the systems that educate American children are going to need a lot of help. But, right now, these children need us, as many of us as they can get, to do what we can: to dive in and get working...
...national economy continues to nose-dive, a growing number of public schools have found themselves facing similar situations - and making more and more painful cutbacks. Advanced Placement programs, extra help for English learners, art, music and summer school could be on the chopping block in many places. Ditto for efforts to reduce class size. (See pictures of a diverse group of American teens...