Word: huges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Russia to Latin America? On Wall Street last week, jittery traders dismissed the Federal Reserve's quarter-point cut in interest rates as too puny and sent the Dow Jones industrial average plunging 448 points in two days. In Washington State, farmers watched helplessly as their grain piled into huge drifts for lack of Asian buyers. In slumping Brazil, Ford and General Motors, which only recently completed new plants in the country, had to cut production drastically. And the future could be grimmer still, according to the International Monetary Fund, which reported at its annual assemblage of world finance ministers...
Most hedge funds use these tools to diversify. But a few, like Long Term Capital, have used them to make huge borrowed-money bets on instruments that can't be found in any newspaper, seeking sky-high returns that can't be sustained. These aren't hedge funds so much as hedge hogs...
...becomes aquatinted with the play's governing force from the outset in the form of Bessie Smith's spirit, who croons the blues from behind an ephemeral scrim which effectively separates the realms of action. Casting a huge black shadow on the white of the gauzy scrim, she is a strong symbol of guilt hovering as an angel over a white world, and she is central to any success this show finds in its ability to condemn. Bessie's soulful vocal chords are those of Boston veteran actress Michelle Dowd, whose blues tunes are harmoniously accompanied by a talented...
According to Guillory, a scholar of Renaissance literature and literary theory, "literature and science define two huge elements of modern experience...
...network summoned Dallas, the American Gladiator who also happens to be the two-time Tough Woman World Champion. Tara's uneasiness about facing the Gladiator (and without a padded "Pugil Stick," at that) wasn't helped by the fact that she wasn't sure who her mom--a huge "American Gladiators" fan and a passionate devotee of Dallas--would be cheering...