Word: lull
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...turning point for me," he says. But when he went back to Los Angeles, it became "this huge anticlimactic thing that basically took on different shades of awe, wonder, acceptance, bitterness or disassociation for the next-what year is it?-17 years. There was this kind of lull, and I never really found any momentum to focus my creative energy after that, so pretty expectable things happened...
...Still, the announcement is certain to heighten tensions between Maliki and Sadr, whose forces have been fighting Iraqi and U.S. troops on the streets of east Baghdad for the past week. And ironically, it was announced after a relative lull in violence in Sadr City. In fact, Saturday night passed in Sadr City with no dead or wounded appearing in the hospitals of the battered Shi'ite warren, where clashes have left more than 100 dead. Overnight the gunfire that had rattled across the slum through the past several days slowed, and by late afternoon Sunday an edgy calm...
Taking advantage of a rare lull in the campaign, Obama went to St. Thomas for an Easter break...
...decade and a half of good times in real estate seemed to lull many buyers of this paper into ignoring risk completely. Ever since investors began discovering to their horror early last year that it is in fact possible to lose money on mortgages, the market for mortgage securities has been gripped by distrust and disagreement. That distrust has since spread to other investments previously advertised as virtually risk-free: insured bonds, auction-rate municipal bonds and the structured investment vehicles (SIVS) that banks used to get ugly stuff off their balance sheets...
...start, and both Hamas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stand to gain from making the cease-fire, or "lull," as it is called by both sides, last a bit longer. An extended truce would give Hamas recognition in its power struggle with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who sits in the West Bank, and it might lead to the lifting of a crippling economic blockade on Gaza imposed after Hamas swept out Abbas loyalist fighters from the strip last June...