Word: lullingly
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...pretty much every game we'd be up by a significant number of points and then there would be a lull and they'd catch-up." said co-captain Heather Rypkema. "It's not like we played poorly throughout the match, it's just that we couldn't maintain a high level of play due to our lack of mental focus...
...Jones industrial average flirts with a record 6000. What the market serves up one day it can steal back the next, and we are long overdue for an encounter with this sometime crook's larcenous side. Some thought a meeting was in store last summer. But after a brief lull, this unprecedented bull market was off and charging again. It's now been six years since the broader market gauge, the Standard & Poor's 500, fell as much as 10%--twice as long as ever before...
Normally the summer months bring a distinct lull to the sports world. This is, of course, due to the dormancy of the three "N's": the NFL, NBA and NHL. Recent years have brought a growing disinterest in baseball. This summer was even bad for golf as a bunch of no names dominated the majors...
...July 3, they voted for Boris Yeltsin for one reason: the hope that he could bring some normality into their chaotic lives. But Russia today seems as unsettled as ever. The economy again appears in deep trouble, the war in Chechnya has flared up after a brief campaign-induced lull, and the Communist-dominated parliament is again flexing its considerable political muscle. Instead of taking charge, Yeltsin has taken refuge at a sanatorium outside Moscow. He has left behind a team whose members are united largely by political expediency and spend more time jockeying for position than running the country...
Living in Moscow helps. Life is simple there, with the sweet smell of wheat fields and the muted bustle of a small college town to lull the senses--and with, in theory, little to distract O'Brien, who suffers from attention-deficit disorder. His girlfriend of three years, Leilani Sing, 23, a former Miss Klamath County who teaches scuba diving, moved in with him in the early summer, and the two spend their spare time watching videos in the spacious home he built last year. Still, easygoing, accessible and sociable, O'Brien cannot help offering a piece of himself...