Word: kept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Khong says the U.S. should be aware of Japan, and Ulam says, "I think to some extent the Reagan administration kept pushing problems under the rug, and those problems--Japan, Western Europe--they all come...
...commodities pits, there is no time to reflect, only time to react, to buy when the market heads north, to sell the instant it flounders. Thus the busy traders never really stopped to wonder about the unusual behavior of several new colleagues who regularly lost thousands of dollars but kept coming back for more, day after day for two years. Tom Hicks, a trader on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, remembers one in particular named Peter Vogel: "He was real clean-cut -- wing tips, clipped hair, tie always knotted tightly. He didn't dress like the rest of us. They called...
...past four weeks have been the bloodiest so far. At least 40 Arabs have died, and more than 500 have been wounded as Palestinians, galvanized perhaps by the U.S. decision to talk to the Palestine Liberation Organization, have kept up a steady barrage of rocks and fire bombs. Nearly 90% of the violence involves stones, and most of the throwers are children. Strikes to protest the surge in deaths led only to more lethal encounters with Israeli troops...
...assignments in the opera world. A year and a half ago, he won the powerful job of artistic director at the still uncompleted Opera de la Bastille. In September the grateful government awarded him the Legion of Honor. But now Barenboim's luck has turned. While President Francois Mitterrand kept silent, he was summarily fired -- and just as summarily vowed to sue. He denounced the "lies, half- truths, bad faith and especially the incompetence of those in charge...
Yale has been following a regular schedule the past two weeks, but don't expect harmony on the Eli lines either. A rash of injuries has kept Taylor busy creating new combinations...