Word: onset
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...with the onset of a recession, the average junk-bond fund fell 10%. Then it surged 37%, 18% and 19% over the next three years. During a slowdown in 1994, junk-bond funds fell 4% but then rallied more than 12% in each of the next three years...
...Israeli-Palestinian conflict has lurched into its most dangerous crisis since the onset of the intifada last year. But the danger lies less in the escalation of what remains a familiar pattern of violence, than in the fact that the none of the key players - the government of Ariel Sharon, the Palestinian leadership and the Bush administration - appears to have a clear strategy, and all three are deeply divided over how to proceed...
...raise the minimum age for girls to 14, but this year, a legislative oversight body dominated by traditional clerics vetoed the move. An attempt by conservatives to abolish Yemen's legal minimum age of 15 for girls failed, but local experts say it is rarely enforced anyway. (The onset of puberty is considered an appropriate time for a marriage to be consummated...
Fear of poverty keeps many Muslim women locked in bad marriages, as does the prospect of losing their children. Typically, fathers win custody of boys over the age of six and girls after the onset of puberty. Maryam, an Iranian woman, says she has stayed married for 20 years to a philandering opium addict she does not love because she fears losing guardianship of her teenage daughter. "Islam supposedly gives me the right to divorce," she says. "But what about my rights afterward...
Fear of poverty keeps many Muslim women locked in bad marriages, as does the prospect of losing their children. Typically, fathers win custody of boys over the age of six and girls after the onset of puberty. Maryam, an Iranian woman, says she has stayed married for 20 years to a philandering opium addict she does not love because she fears losing guardianship of her teenage daughter. "Islam supposedly gives me the right to divorce," she says. "But what about my rights afterward...