Word: retest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Barton refused to give blood or saliva samples for DNA testing or take a lie-detector test. In the end, the authorities had strong feelings Barton was guilty, but there were no witnesses to place him at the campground, no fingerprints and only inconclusive forensic evidence. Before they could retest the blood traces in his car, Barton claimed to have spilled a soft drink on them, destroying the evidence...
Everybody knows by now that we put in a bottom in that first hour, one that we will no doubt retest in the coming days, but one that smacks of as much of a bottom as its '87 counterpart. As in all bottoms, there were no sellers, just buyers--panicked ones at that--and I had to reach for stocks 2 and 3 points above where they looked to be trading at the time on my screen...
What happens now? As every trader knows, we have to retest the ugliness of last Monday before we have the cathartic capitulation. In fact the rest of the week unfolded in textbook irony, almost exactly like '87's postcrash aftermath. Which means we are probably a few more days away from a bottom. How will you know? Easy: business will be back on the business pages where it belongs, and talk of a year-end rally will fill the air. And the only people still at the corner of Broad and Wall at 6 a.m. will be selling coffee...
Smith went in for a retest on a Thursday: and the nurse told her to call her on Monday: Smith left a message, but the nurse did not return her call. Two days later, Smith called again...
...College may soon revamp its policy of excused absences from exams, requiring students to make up missed tests during the regular exam period instead of waiting several months for a retest, College officials said yesterday...