Word: lightful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Japanese finance minister Kiichi Miyazawa called it "the light at the end of the tunnel": Japan?s GDP grew 1.9 percent in the first three months of 1999 after six straight quarters of contraction. The number was hailed by optimists as a sign that Japan?s moribund economy had finally bottomed out, and U.S. stocks dropped Thursday on the hint that a Japan-fueled recovery of the Asian tigers was on -? and that U.S. inflation (and a Fed rate hike) would soon follow...
...Baccalaureate Service for the Class of 1999, conducted in Memorial Church yesterday afternoon, was a short, light-hearted and sweltering prelude to the official Commencement exercises to be held tomorrow...
...hearing a lot of speeches over the next few days. The light note was definitely appropriate," said Celia D. Whitaker...
...this light, the Ad Board must do two things. First, in serious matters where a student's conduct might constitute a serious criminal offense--i.e., rape and physical or sexual assault--the Board must defer its fact-finding role to the courts. It is based on these findings, and not on those of a subcommittee, that the board should subsequently fulfill its educational and disciplinary mission...
...director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) wasn't always light on his feet--his future wife Ann taught him his dance floor moves after they met in the early 1950s...