Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...school, Raffield quickly aroused suspicion. "When someone tries so hard to fit in fast, you know something is wrong," said a teenager familiar with the scene. Raffield obviously was not a typical student. For one thing, ( the school assigned him three lunch periods. Some students called him "21 Jump Street," after the TV show about undercover cops on the high school beat...
...event has ever dramatized the interdependence of world financial markets quite like the October crash. Last week stock exchanges around the globe continued alternately to plummet and jump upward in violent imitation of the spasms on the New York Big Board. In some cases, the volatility was much worse. In Tokyo, for example, the Nikkei share index dived 4% on Monday, but in a week of wild slides and surges finally closed with a gain of .1%. In London the Financial Times index tumbled 6% on the opening day of trading but struggled back and ended the week with...
...soaring numbers of students who fail to repay their loans has shocked congressmen and sent Administration and college officials running to find a solution. The government's annual payment on defaulted loans will jump 10-fold from $209 million in 1978 to $2 billion by the end of the decade...
That description fits women like the blond girl with polio who drags her crippled legs up to the table and competes in the only sport she can. And it fits men like Joe Elmizadeh, 36, an Iranian immigrant, who was a long-jump champ in the 1974 Asian Games. Now Joe is a garage mechanic who beat all his cohorts in matches at the shop, which is why they have dragged him to today's event, his first. "He's got himself in a fix today," says his wife Adrienne...
...convince investors that something worthwhile will be done to bring budget and trade deficits under control. Probably not much time, either. Wildly gyrating markets are better than those that plunge straight down, but they are hard on the nerves of stockholders who have already proved they are ready to jump at the first sign of trouble. The continued drop on the foreign exchanges Friday cannot be brushed off. If the wild week proved anything, it was that in an era when the U.S. is dependent on foreign goods and capital, no exchange is an island. Price breaks overseas can touch...