Word: lull
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During a brief lull in the shooting, our driver threw the Jeep into reverse and backed in drunken swerves 100 yards away from the heaviest fighting. We scrambled out into a shallow roadside ditch filled with weeds and dried cow manure and spent the next hour in intimate contact with the ground. The fighting finally died down and the contras retreated, leaving eleven dead. Four of the seven Jeeps in the convoy had suffered casualties, the three in front of us and the one immediately behind...
...spring rally has followed a three-week lull that led many analysts to suspect that a long-expected "market correction," or sharp drop, might be coming. Wall Street, however, has weathered a number of such pauses since last summer, and each time stocks have gone higher again. Says Robert Farrell, chief market analyst for Merrill Lynch: "Since August the pattern of this bull market has been four to five weeks of advance followed by two to four weeks of consolidation. There have been four advancing periods and four consolidations...
...Detroit's makers are joining the move to convertibles. Says American Motors Chairman Paul Tippett: "We think they are a fad." Indeed, there are a few signs that the new market is in a lull. Chrysler has cut production of its convertibles to 100 a day from 250 and slashed the price of its Dodge 400 by 25% from $13,500 to below...
...initial lull allowed a few high school seniors to hit the library. One woman, from Washington D.C., said she had spent the afternoon in the Winthrop House library, working on a term paper on "Immigration's Effect on the Progressive Era in the 20th Century...
...prize at the Venice Biennale (back when the Biennale mattered) heralded the "imperial" entry of American art into Europe. The unwanted reward of a career like Rauschenberg's is premature old-masterhood, followed by a cooling in the audience. This happened in the late '70s, when a lull was felt in his work...