Word: peak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rich individuals will swiftly scoop up bargains and thereby halt the slide before it can erode the market 20% -- the level that indicates a bear market has begun. Last Friday the market closed at 3437.19, up 9.64 points for the week and down 41.42 points from its April 16 peak...
...famine that snuffed out 300,000 lives in 1992 may have passed its peak before the Marines landed. But there is no doubt that the American-led intervention saved many. Julie Bryant, a Red Cross nurse outside Bardera, recalls that often children were trundled in in wheelbarrows, too weak to walk. "Look," she says, pointing to a boy registered in her logbook. "That child should have been dead. Now there is such life here: they argue, they play football." As she speaks, a group of kids runs past chasing a pet baboon with a red cross painted on its bottom...
Beyond the statecraft is Clinton's biggest assignment: persuading the American people that their children and their billions should be spent on Bosnia. (Maintaining a fully deployed armored division of 25,000 at peak readiness in Bosnia for one year could cost $5 billion.) It is a long reach to argue that vital U.S. interests are involved, beyond a preference for peace and stability in all parts of the world. With the rationalizations peeled off, the West's concern is prompted by the moral imperative and is essentially humanitarian. That is why France and Britain sent troops to escort...
...struggled a little bit earlier in the year, but now we're starting to come together as a team," Co-Captain Rachel Burke said. "We hope we peak this weekend...
Frazier believes that although this semester did not see peak BGLSA member activity, it was not without accomplishment...