Word: preblast
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...explosion from her office window. "It's impossible to avoid public places all the time if you want to carry on doing business." The Jakarta Stock Exchange plunged some 3% on the day of the bombing but soon rallied, closing the week at 505.36?slightly above Monday's preblast closing. And although Indonesia's currency, the rupiah, held its ground against the greenback, the blast has eroded business sentiment "just when things were turning around," says Thomas Lembong, a former official of the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency who is now a private investor. "Indonesia is especially adept at snatching defeat...
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