Word: ranged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the police left, the phone rang. It was the family's housekeeper, wanting to know why I was having a wild party. She said that she had just met a friend of mine, who said he was coming over. I frantically asked her who he was and she said he was tall, thin, and bearded. So I hung up, and called the police again--grabbing a knife out of the kitchen...
...suggested last spring that the "yellow rain" in Southeast Asia, which the State Department claims is biochemical weaponry used by the Soviet Union, is actually bee droppings. Last week, as the beleaguered Meselson sat dictating letters requesting $700 from the Harvard administration to help fund his work, the phone rang. An official of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Chicago informed him that he had been chosen to receive a fiveyear, no-strings $256,000 award. Meselson covered the mouthpiece and gleefully exclaimed to his secretary, "Money...
...soon as fighting broke out in the streets of West Beirut, the Lebanese government ordered the army to shoot on sight. Steel shutters rang down on storefronts. Pedestrians scattered. Car horns blared incessantly. We were interviewing a former government minister when the fighting broke out, and emerged from his office to find shots ringing out amid the cafés and boutiques of Hamra Street, one of West Beirut's busiest thoroughfares. We stopped briefly to buy provisions, then hurried to our apartment building. Not a minute too soon. The half a dozen men of the Lebanese Army contingent...
...ballet that really rang in Tharp's big season was Bach Partita, which American Ballet Theater is performing on its current tour. Despite some radical moves, it is a classical ballet that Petipa would recognize, and as such, it completes Tharp's range as a choreographer. She has nothing more to prove; the challenges now are the ones that she, a master, gives herself...
When the closing bell tolled at 4 last Friday afternoon, the New York Stock Exchange rang out its busiest year ever. Inspired by a continuing bull market, investors had traded 21.6 billion shares, up from 16.5 billion in 1982. The Dow Jones industrial average closed the year at 1258.64, a gain of 212 points over 1982. Prices on the American Stock Exchange, which is made up largely of younger companies with lower-priced issues, surged ahead 31%. The over-the-counter market, the haven for more speculative stocks, rose 20%. Most shares made their big gains during the first half...