Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...acquisition binge, however, overjoys Wall Street, where it has helped drive stock prices to record highs. In recent weeks the Dow Jones industrial average has scaled one peak after another. Last week was the busiest in the history of the New York Stock Exchange, as the Dow jumped 58.03 points, to close at 1535.21. "The windfall profits from merger offers have sent a fever through the market," said Byron Wien, a Morgan Stanley analyst. In a recent study, the Goldman Sachs investment banking firm estimated that corporate takeovers have been responsible for nearly three-quarters of all stock gains since...
...market begins." A price war would be a risky, last-ditch change in strategy for OPEC, which has been floundering in an ocean of crude. For the past four years OPEC has tried to shore up prices by limiting the worldwide oversupply. The cartel squeezed its output from a peak of nearly 32 million bbls. per day in 1979 to just 18 million now. But such competitors as Britain and Mexico defeated that strategy by selling more oil. Like a lonely gas- station owner watching all the cars whiz by, OPEC cannot figure out how to stop its rivals down...
...inhabitants of earth, the third closest planet to the star, the long- awaited spectacle had begun. After a 75-year sojourn through the solar system, Halley's (rhymes with valley's) comet had again swung into view, but just barely. At Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson one night last month, several large telescopes tracked the approaching comet, projecting images that flickered across television monitors. But like countless amateur stargazers around the world, the astronomers wanted to see the cosmic celebrity with their own eyes. Huddled in the chill mountain air outside an observatory dome, necks craned, binoculars raised, they...
This year, however, the University is considering shifting the peak heating hours forward to accomodate students' late hours...
Cabot Library was vandalized Wednesday night when a rock was thrown through a six-by-10-foot second-floor window during peak study hours. Noone was hurt in the incident...