Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...truly stunning is the cumulative effect of all those bang- bang weeks. At Friday's close the Dow Jones industrials had zoomed up more than 1900 points over five years; prices of the 30 stocks in the average had multiplied roughly 3 1/2 times from the Dow's low...
...price he receives is low these days, $8 a ton, and he and his second wife are having a hard time getting by, but he has cut wood since he was 14 years old and can't see himself working at anything else. He and his first wife, who died a few years ago, had eight children, and they raised them on his woodcutter's wages. Back in the days when he began, he says, "There weren't nobody lower than a woodcutter," but today his skills are more respected, and he tells proudly that the bank was willing...
...hard to remember that until the 1960s ghettos from Harlem to the South Side of Chicago were beacons of hope for blacks fleeing from the rigid segregation of the Jim Crow South. Jobs -- dirty, low-paying, but regular -- were available in thriving urban industries to anyone with a mind to work and a back strong enough for heavy lifting. Although pernicious, segregation at least compelled a sense of community, with black professionals and businessmen living among those who were far less successful. "These figures served the black community well as visible, concrete symbols of success and moral value, as living...
Fitzwater also said he saw nothing improper in Reagan holding a high-profile, although private, meeting with Contra leaders. The peace plan submitted jointly by Reagan and House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Texas) contemplated a low administration profile on the question of seeking further military assistance for the rebels...
...base, Sri Lankan officials received six truckloads of guerrilla weaponry, including .50- cal. machine guns, AK-47 assault rifles and homemade mortars. But the arms dump was also salted with rusty rifles and shells the Tigers would probably never use. The final turn-in rate might be as low as 40%. In that case, the Indian army may launch operations to ferret out hidden weapons...